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A Greenness Taller Than Gods When we stop, a green snake starts again through deep branches. Spiders mend webs we marched into. Monkeys jabber in flame trees, dancing on the limbs to make fire-colored petals fall. Torch birds burn through the dark-green day. The lieutenant puts on sunglasses & points to an X circled on his map. When will we learn to move like trees move? The point man raises his hand Wait\ We've just crossed paths with VC, branches left quivering. The lieutenant's right hand says what to do. We walk into a clearing that blinds. We move like a platoon of silhouettes balancing sledge hammers on our heads, unaware our shadows have untied from us, wandered off & gotten lost. ii ...

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