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A dusk begins and we return to it.
A sea becomes the question and answers itself.
To be held in a steady gaze and then become roots.
To forget for a time.
The sun sulfated, its steady pulse
playing along the fingers of our garments.
A button. A sock. A voice
and no voice looming from it.
To watch autumn’s brown origami.
The cat’s ribs clinging to its skin.
Flocks of scissors racing along a coast.
I am sorry for the severed drift of the sea.
To answer was impossible.
To acquaint oneself with lighthouses, griefs.
To as a child divide each thing in its openness.
A steep breathed braying. A bootâs roily gills.
To grow sick with smoothness. To be born
an incalculable number. To count to yourself in stones.
Kyle McCord is author of Galley of the Beloved in Torment.
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