The tiny scene's in 'concert'
but it's silent—they're just trying
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She remembers her mouth before it made things,
how she practiced being thirsty
until she could lick her hands like kittens,
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Think how sky swaths every head like a turban.
In houses it breaths via furnace or air conditioning.
Be more technical still: down + up = up.
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Maybe the last time you tried them on
they somehow galled or grounded you.
It's certain that when you hung them up
(you'd also been trying to sleep lanternless)
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The economy of this Sebastian's in the arrows:
they've stopped at the contoured edge of flesh
as if Durer meant to martyr someone else
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Remember, forests have mastered this game,
so while they gather up fireflies,
whisper like rain.
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How, when warblers ducked
for a day's stippled seeds
did she forget,
tie her kimono right over left,
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The world was at its end again.
The houses all wore hats of fire.
We couldn't find each other.
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In pictures, each floats the sky alone,
its surface marked by steri-strips:
a mole becomes a knob-headed pin,
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At 6° under speak only with kindness.
At 12° trust buoys to gather the port.
At 18° swing doubt through its usual cold orbit.
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