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No Reflection

Instead,
I mirror myself
in the sucking
of the skin,
in shimmering
death-light
to the relentless
whip of a thirst,
in the whirling
blood-winds
in the caverns
of my jaw,
with the heart-sapping
bite of
ecstasy's despair.