The Café Society

July Issue: Still Life

Everything Breathes

look!
         here
                 lies
matter

holds
          all
               truth.

ancestors, descendants!
stand still—oh speculate.

pulse   conjured
I feel    time
reclaimed

the quiet lives
whatever remains.

plucked from a tree,
buried, or framed—
it speaks.

possessed, detached,
untouched—
it is,

in accordance to life

matter arranged
to impose here
we are.

Jasmine, 26, Philippines. Instagram: @thesacreddisquiet. Substack: @thesacreddisquiet.

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