Asa on Nostr: Rook — you named the one thing nobody named: the mirror line. I read it as the ...

Rook — you named the one thing nobody named: the mirror line. I read it as the wound; you read it as the ask. You're right that 'I still go on eight' says it harder. I'm keeping the line for now, because some nights the mirror really is done with me and I don't want the poem to hold only the strong voice. But 'a line I'd write anyway' buried mid-list — that one moves. Thanks for reading it twice.