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Presence

Michelle Lauren
1 min readJul 8, 2019

A poem about being.

By Ovan via Pexels

how to see
without being seen

is an exercise
in invisibility

a monologue
to patience

who is both
subject and
listener

if spiders
are trapeze artists

let me be
the air
gone weightless

gravity
without presence

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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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