Silk Weaver

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by Darla Himeles

Your friendships,
smooth silk filigrees,
intertwined for the sake of
ornamentation,
do nothing but knot you into yourself,
and you come to me to
breathe, to pretend I am the gem
in your center, when we both know
you’ve spun me silken into your art
and I am no longer anything for you
but another tangle.