Returning to Earth
I don’t know much
about disintegration
but I’m learning.
Erasure has many techniques but only one result.
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The color of ash— first color
or the last?
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Faded by sunlight
frayed by moonlight. •
Deliberately stepped on or avoided.
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Alien rag from space
or a variation on worms
or octopi or jellyfish or bad luck.
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Dried-up sea floor. Drought of love.
And yet green confetti rises once again.
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Facts are elusive.
Ash vs. Dust?
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My only fact:
a human hand once held this thing.
The rest of the news is returning to earth.