Imagine to Remember

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In the house of irises ⁣⁣
I had pitiful joy⁣⁣
and sugar sweet sorrow⁣⁣
In this house I watched you, friends⁣⁣
alien flora, your twisted petals and tendrils opening⁣, unfolding, tender as the organs, centremost in my own being ⁣⁣
A perverse beauty, a wicked thing⁣⁣
In the house of irises⁣⁣
I lost my mind and left my body⁣⁣
left my mind and lost my body⁣⁣
Not woman, not a girl⁣⁣
not human, not divine⁣,⁣
but an inbetween thing⁣,⁣
an aberration to be studied⁣⁣
In the house of irises⁣⁣
you my friends, my soft salvation⁣⁣
my silent watchers⁣⁣
my only confidants⁣⁣
Your strange purple limbs, moving, moving, recoiling under the the heat of a new sun⁣, back into to cold refuge of the earths the dark embrace ⁣⁣⁣⁣
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