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16 B e A U t I F U L , t H e d e A d e n d of your body strong with the last shards of summer, beautiful, ohio, your children pushing each other midwest of decency toward failure, certain, their nerves disciples of the end of August, the season brutal to the brink of its body, the mud marked by heels in sudden monuments where they forced tameness back into their eyes, reeling themselves down until, half-mass sober, enough language returned to think so long, lover I’ll long for as long as ohio rivers, beautiful, letting me go too far, through orchard and field, through the best of the body, beyond the shards of vows we leave in each other. Beautiful, all that leaving. ...

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