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Disarmed, for T.C.

On my back on the table in this your calm room             you caress my ankles and will my body tributaries  to rise up and meridians to exhale  Your knowledge like pulling taffy with buttered             hands   Your strength redirects my body’s river  which you lift and stretch       Then you place a wafer of a small white pillow over my eyes             that I might entirely succumb     to your warm hands draping  like weighted blankets over each of my resting shoulders    With intention    drifting toward chest      measuring every              underground hillock in these my pliable appendages  Rag doll    Ballerina flutter  You know each finite twist as you precisely roll              my relinquished wing  inward   then out   my shy face sensing the sun         breeze-like     dragon fly lithe spine holding then unfolding   You press hard with your palm on the top of my right hand             (The discovery of braille)    fingers blanket fingers leveraged from neck tendon to