to pull yourself
right up out of the ground
as if you’d been buried alive
but despite your panic
you’d fallen asleep and dreamt
for a few minutes about the day
you first felt alone and
stranded even from yourself
and the pain of that
woke you only to find
you were under the ground
but could still wrest yourself free
working one hand leaf-like upward
and pushing down against all hell
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