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Feathers

Michelle Lauren
1 min readJun 28, 2019

A poem about pauses.

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white feathers
clump
in a stone
basin

fingerprints against
water

tendrils

smelling of
pine

Sunlight
stuttering against
wood

drinking in the last sounds
of a stillborn summer

and then the rain falls

and the winds take

and two spots
of light
float under

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Michelle Lauren
Michelle Lauren

Written by Michelle Lauren

Poet, digital artist, and editor of The Sonder Script. Looking for the ways words catch like silver in the rain. Writer for Lit Up, Start It Up & The Shortform.

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