Plane

for Rich

In opposite fierceness,
the backbone holds
what according to what?

Tenses imperfect, bodies
nudged out of mind.

Once you have a place
you must strain
to hold it.

Fist closed / first class
window seat on
paper airplane.

To say it exactly
like that, no other
possible way

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