ENVIRONMENTAL Poem: Riff, by Kyna Crumley

tenacious echoes articulate my cilia—
a nervous murmur,
like half-forgotten constellations
mapped only once
in the freckles flourishing
across your shoulder blade.

descend with me—
wade through bleeding incense
let your fingers improvise,
please—
something minor, something fractured
on the tired bar piano.

drown the syllables of my departure
echoing beneath the vascular canopy
of meshed douglas fir,
where goodbye hums back—
recursive, unresolved—
in the tense geometry of branches.

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