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"Dominant orientation
lights a corridor

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wide as Mexico's
northern border.

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Upon return, everything
left was unopened,

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consumed by humans, destroyed
by humans, or animalized.

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One hopes the bees hiving, dying

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in foul smelling clumps,
are not Africanized.

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The increasing
aftermath of invasion.

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The wounds,

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amber overtaken near
lovely in the morning.

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The first recorded dead remained
unidentifiable to the officers.

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Lost to exposure.

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What to do with a
Negro in the desert.

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Or all of them after.

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In dry orchards out of season.

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Among cotton.

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Saguaro picked by wrens.

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Exposure precedes
the realization

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of an identity or fact.

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State of being exposed to
contact with something else.

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Even when making
very little noise.

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The soldiers.

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Pissing behind creosote.

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Or elegant on their horses
lined to enter the corral.

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Entering each morning before
the mountain silhouettes.

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A cold hand to
unlace the erroneous

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and unfortunately
pussing stitch.

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The hand incorporated along
emotional fields of decay.

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The chain cholla
fruit, then fall.

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Soil in Sonora softens
according to the rain.

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Offering every
explanation in full.

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Without saying shit.

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Without gentleness or stepping
back from the officers' science.

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Or from how white
supremacist they really are.

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At the center of the
explanation sits a small box.

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And to this box the beetle
larvae arrive to feed.

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Among legal understandings
of natural life in the United

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States is the sentence.

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As in, for the length
of one's natural life.

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(There, standing.

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The distance of
their body to a door

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cracked alone in the desert.

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Irrefutable music.)

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The sentence of natural life,
unlike the sentence of life,

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doesn't allow for the
possibility of parole.

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Which was anyway discontinued
in Arizona in 1993

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when the possibility
of parole was

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replaced with that of release.

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A process which remains
judicially vague.

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Among peoples in
the United States,

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Indigenous peoples are
incarcerated at the highest

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rates per capita.

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Among Blacks, the
carceral industry

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(regardless the branching of
orchards and centuries of trees)

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finds its critical mass.

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Every sentence
harbors a unique end.

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That is its gift.

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Night opens a jagged scar.

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Soft purple signals the end
of night in Southern Arizona.

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Tree frogs retreat in
the depths of winter.

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Their bodies appear lifeless.

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As do certain moths that
avoid internal freezing

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by purging their guts.

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After the last music.

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A man, then unidentified,

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found fully fleshed;
condition code one.

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From which water flows north.

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Probable electrocution located
in a database of migrant deaths.

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His coordinates crossed
by desert jaguars

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reliant on streams.

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His coordinates are passed
through the beetles'

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gentle bowels.

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And those of the Bell's vireo.

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Identified by a
two-part structure.

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His definitive response
and water down his slender,

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grayed breast.

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Beneath the cottonwood's
gold filtered crown.

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Where the lowland leopard
frog remains moist.

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The large cat's paw print
remains fresh in the soil.

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After the last music.

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Tubman and Whitney
hike Brown Canyon.

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They spot a rare
beardless tyrannulet

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(did she appear from nowhere?)

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hugging parched northern
boundaries of her species range.

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A Mexican jaguar treads
backward to observe

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her melancholic refrain.

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It's without their interest
that the Department of Interior

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studies effects of stress
and fire on vegetation

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via high rise, high res,
satellite phenomics.

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No two droughts are alike.

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The earliest Negro recorded dead
in Arizona was unidentified.

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Having not survived
probable hypothermia.

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Exposure.

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Blunt force.

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Force accumulates
behind the skull

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to bear centuries of
afterlife and pulp.

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The afterlife of
being chatteled.

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Of being made a glorified
mercenary or buffoon.

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Hanging naked in
the moon's light.

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Where there is no substitute
for the adjunct feeling.

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Coerced into foul
smelling clumps.

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Let's say the force
requires a hand.

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Or an industry.

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At whatever temperature.

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More land.

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Let's say some
records are not good.

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Or, the pulp is blooming.

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And the hands they return
not destroyed exactly

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but smelling lonely
and of death."

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