what will you whisper into my crevices this time?

what will you whisper into my crevices this time?
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"I try to hone a poem invested in memory and imagination to arrive at some deeper question of truth. ...I attempt to create threads that feel familiar, nostalgic even, but that still long for something speculative."
to accept the enduring // welcome of any favored acre:
How easily / I could imagine a version of our lives / in which he kept all his suffering secret from me. / I saw the beer on the counter.
He says: I want it to smell / like the real thing. // The real thing / is a landscape // of work and death–– / the names of our ancestors // slack in our mouths, / just the art of loving // your family line enough / to reproduce it.