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The Long Exchange

how solemn the marble angel weeps

and the spectacle of the silver stoup surviving each resurrection

 

the night with its black webwork

of nerve cells

 

a man arguing with his own molars

while june bugs batter themselves

against the moon

 

a head of wheat loosening into chaff

 

business conducted

between damp soil and vertebrae

 

a pelvis untying its grip on a century

 

the skeleton yielding

to its first language

dragonflies stitching blue fire

across a pond

 

mako sharks in a coral canyon,

a coelacanth surfacing through stained glass reefs

 

leagues and leagues of shed skins

crashing the shore

of the skull's optic chiasm

 

sleeplessness staring back

 

an all-night restaurant

manta rays unfolding

 

origami paper

rehearsing flight

 

 

 

 

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