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In stops and starts

/ this lust for knowledge
stalled in sweat.

This salt, clandestine
dust in consequence.

An eerie cobble whet from skin.

//

Remember me in ripe
peripheries: the pumpkin seed, a nipple, cashew eye /

the aureole, a mouth of burnt sienna.

Set adrift a single tear to magnify:

the doors of tongues, & songs, & hesitation.