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Forces (2): Song
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—even in prison you would have your childhood— see you go on and do what you ought to do, it is enough, now, anywhere, with everyone you love there to talk to. Outside the Frame It is enough, now, anywhere, with everyone you love there to talk to. And to listen. Slowly we can tell each other some things about our lives: runs, rests, brief resolutions; falls, and lulls; hard joyful runs, in certainty; dull, sweet durances, human silences; look back in at the children, the regular, neutral flicker of their blood; pale, solemn, long-legged animal-gods in their sleep, growing into their lives, in their sleep. Forces (2): Song Weeds breaking up through stone: our hold on our own hollows, the quick, curved line of a smile: bare, our own ribs shelter us: a boy’s cold, white fingers around a match: heart belling: hollow, quick, through the live horn, the bone, to this day, calm. 124 door in the mountain ...