avalanches
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avalanches Lyrics
If snow is flesh in gardens: we don't have mouths to talk about it
Between avalanches, we can find our language
Between fire blankets, we can speak our language
But if snow is like skin: it pulls away, so easy, dragged from the body
What if all stripped wood is branches and all frozen lakes are water?
Then our bodies will be avalanches
Between avalanches, we can find our language
Between fire blankets, we can speak our language
But if snow is like skin: it pulls away, so easy, dragged from the body
What if all stripped wood is branches and all frozen lakes are water?
Then our bodies will be avalanches
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“avalanches” works in divorce lawyers i shaved my head as a rumination of the narrator, using dense metaphors to explain their view of themselves, their then-boyfriend, and their relationship as a whole.
These lines reflect how, for many trans people, the journey to self-acceptance not only includes understanding how to feel about oneself as a person, but attaining a vocabulary to express oneself and one’s queerness in a cisheteronormative society.
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