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245 After Happily Ever After The Watchtower Traci Brimhall & Brynn Saito You could guard the city if you could bear your own loneliness. The night could offer you wildflowers and moonlight and your bright face reflected in the waters below. But how will you rise above me if I continue to seduce you with the illusion that violence is honest? Look at the sea, the bereft immensity. No ships approach. But do not confuse that with safety; absence is the heaviest tide. Watch for the sea wind, and watch for the wildest enemy within you. Once sunrise shows its unmerciful love, you will know this: you must save yourself more than once. Look at the sea again, count the sails of continuing departure. Count the cut tongues in the blood coral. I see a bright ring around you. Come with your torn heart to the bottom of the reef. The shipwreck you find there hides in its hull a rusted rapier and whalebones and a compass. Beware 246 A Face to Meet the Faces the gleam of forgotten gold. Beware the dark bite of sought pleasures. Cut your hair and climb through the swaying. Then open your body to the windless night. The light inside you will guide the burning ships to shore. ...

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