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A Letter to the Leaf Bookmark in My Book
You pause between the pages like a breath,
a poignant witness to the lives I've read.
You hold the place where wonder slips through death, where words sink deep, like neurons, in my head.

Your veins once pulsed with sky, with sun and rain, now pressed, preserved, you cradle all I’ve lost. Each sentence full of hunger, healing, pain— the cost of reading all I’ve known the cost.

Oh leaf, you’ve been a forest, now a...