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fire flashes from the gun
like a flower that blooms
madness
and is gone.
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live
so nothing will be left
for death at the end
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She was a faith healer, of sorts.
By that, I mean she always held a cure
for hopelessness, could lay a hand
on misery and make it smile
could ever hold.
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Something must hold me this way,
and you,
and the thin blue tail of the galaxy,
to keep us from leaving
as life unfolds behind us
over long roads and intricate, human waters.
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these words,
these words are proof
there is healing
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This is what I know from science:
that a grain of dust dwells at the center
of every flake of snow,
that ice can have its way with land,
that wolves live inside a circle
of their own beginning.
This is what I know from blood:
the first language is not our own.
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beginning and end together
the way sunlight on skin
is still connected
to the fiery storms of its origins
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