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beneath the skin like paper curled
light slit and shone and spilt
in bright cadences of radiance
that stretched thin through stars
until the ends of infinity kissed
with chaste lips and cold tongues
that knew only pale Hosannahs.

better this sting and bite
and blood that sings when it falls
shocking red and rich copper-ripe
on the sheets that slide against
my thin skin marked with tooth
and tongue and sheened with spit,
while this body sings its raucous psalm
of praise to earthly things.

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