how
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i don't want to know.

how did our smiles rip like a moonlit horizon?
the reflections of our teeth illuminate a sea of sound,
but nobody saves us. breath gets short like flailing arms,
sides split and ache from treading deep water, feet
bitten by the shark bait of your secrets. wrapped
in a curling wave that froths silver on the surface,

i present myself to the world. the ocean parts,
strong undercurrents sliced by the swift knife
of your smile. daybreak shatters, an egg cracked into
the slit of dawn. i have drowned my deepest, still

stretching the worth of these lips across the sky,
as we laughed ourselves wide open.