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Breath Without Doors

The house breathes, it has no doors nor thresholds,
a skin of stone that holds the world’s breath;
every corridor is a lung that keeps silence,
the void imprints names that have no home.
Inside, the dreams of strangers approach without knocking,
they settle on the furniture like crumbs of moon;
the ceiling listens to them, dresses them in dust and memory,
until dawn accompanies them out, leaving behind a breath.

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