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"Not a word of my surrounding,
not a half-whispered

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go to catch the rattled ought
of a third concurrent universe

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unlatched the more you
wait, chalk drawn thick

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of old around the marred bodies
left by the citizen squads

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our authorities facilitate,
failed to prosecute, guilt

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being therefore--
quote, unquote.

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When physical comfort,
when bodily prowess

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and sovereign shape
are rendered command

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over the meaning of a
nimbus once in sprigs

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of goldenrod or
Indian paintbrush,

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chalice, owing to crystal rock
and feather work, ivory carved

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in supple limbs, remote
gazes and crusty wounds,

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gold-leaf reredos in bellows
pyramidal from an organ pipe.

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An opulence wrought
from the nightmare

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of Native ablation of
Christian zeal waged

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on local hands and effigies.

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Saint James the Greater made
in Goa and the Philippines

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or Rose of Lima, in a
ministry of Indians and slaves

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fallen victim to epidemic
heroically to God.

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And in penitential
practice, so extravagant--

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cat claws and fish bones
across her wasted flesh--

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as to be the subject of
ecclesiastical inquiry

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into questions of
faith, soundness of mind

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stretched the length and
breadth of his midrib and torso

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and taut spasms.

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Teeth clenched and
lips in a slather

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of animal darkness
and time spent

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under thickets, our twin
intelligence of forearm

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and grip in fast strokes
around gleam and edge,

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tips wet with each
other, then deeper,

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to a clump of hair and fingers
guiding the back of his head,

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mouth over gloss and curvature,
blade indistinguishable

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when too-slow a swell
to release in sounds

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of who, whose ah spread
soaked along back

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and thighs rub sleek across the
wonder imperfections of form.

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Lips abruptly pursed
to each moan pillowed

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by the sudden hush
of skin a spirograph,

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his dark upper eyelids and
lashes down his own limbs now

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in aftermath-order
and lucible enormity."

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