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Sweep me up
with the dust on the floor,
my broken bones,
the dirt, the shards of glass.
Bury it all in a cardboard box,
swaddled in old newsprint
and hope
that in the small hours, you do not hear
clank-crash-smash
from the midden, on the move,
seeking—like the mirror,
like the shadows, like I did.



Toby MacNutt is an author, dancer, and knitter living in rural Vermont. Their work in all media draws on their experience as a nonbinary trans, queer, disabled, and neurodivergent person. Toby's poetry and prose has been published in various magazines and in their collection If Not Skin. Find out more at www.tobymacnutt.com.
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