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Boyer, pull the mic down.

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Down?

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OK.

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"Your head had
lodged in my brain.

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Clay-colored sparse hairs
pasted to your brow like veins.

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A bee sting is no more
sudden than my sense of loss

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was upon waking though you'd
been dead for a decade.

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The dream, I'm guessing now,
was triggered by clumsiness.

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I bumped the armoire
the day before.

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The hand-blown vase in the
shape of a squash blossom

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tipping from its
perch at the top.

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I'd watched its descent--

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as slow as a body falling from
a building, paralyzed as someone

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at the window of an
adjacent building."