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28 Survival The body winnows. The body tills. The body knows sow’s feet, sow gut, night harvested kale. The body knows to sleep through welted dreams, to wake before the night succumbs to morning. Wheat, wheat, tobacco, corn: the body knows. No stopping. No sinking down. Like a branch floats on water, the body does not go under. Like a tree seeded among dark rocks, the body leans where it must. Or fails. ...

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