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This next poem I
wasn't going to read,

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but a few students mentioned
enjoying it earlier,

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so going to read Beast Angel.

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Beast Angel after
Eduardo C. Corral.

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In sleep, you come to
me with a ball of yarn,

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bind my palms into prayer.

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From your arm emerges
a swarm of bees.

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You are carried by their sound.

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Your body shivers with buzzing.

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I pray for silence, for
ecstasy, not knowing its name.

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You float over fields of
needle grass, each toe

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a quivering arrow through
the green of morning.

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In this light, I open the garden
of my body, let loose hunger,

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let loose the nest of field
mice in the coiled snake.

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In this light, I pray to
hold stillness like a gun.

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