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66 Lamp of the Body The eye is the lamp of the body.So,if your eye is sound,your whole body will be full of light. —Matthew 6:22 Tonight you’re sailing over the tiled roofs in your blue pajamas, over our family’s streets—Redwood, Lilacwood, Liberty, Hummingbird. I can see you by the light of my own body. It fills me to the skin. I can see your cigarette ash is growing inches long, and you’ve forgotten it. You’re busy now, navigating the stars, dewing each blade of grass with a fingertip. Everywhere I see smoke dissolving, a soft trick of the eye.The ash bends, then drops off. From here I can see pink roses on your blue house slippers. Come down. Do you know my face?That’s me waving from the one lit window on a street you don’t know. I’m lighting it with my body. ...

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