we plummeted to earth
tumbling skin to skin
limbs entangled in white silk
an explosion of feathers
descended after us
drifting like snowflakes
and tasting of too-sweet sugar
as we fell
we made angels
in the sheets
floating and leaving no trace
we plummeted to earth
tumbling skin to skin
limbs entangled in white silk
an explosion of feathers
descended after us
drifting like snowflakes
and tasting of too-sweet sugar
as we fell
we made angels
in the sheets
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Those last three lines… wow!!
I can’t take full credit. Those lines were the prompt for the poem. You can see all the prompts on Instagram by looking up @amandatorroni there.
I do not have instagram…but maybe I will find it anyway!?
Here’s a link to the original post. You don’t need to be on Instagram to see it: