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parturient
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parturient must mean a kind of heat that moves ants through the blood in search of sugar. rinse and they return. now you see their bodies flicker, suck sweet flake skin from the tops of their heads in all this green grass. it must mean they will find you. maybe they name and map you. only when desire drags your knees over rocks, and the blood is outside are you spared. only with petals’ swell will the throb throw out everything. replace the itch. note : nothing eats an altar. nothing knows how to wreck its dust. the fragrant insect instead, genuflects. it must be the line people faint out of. a minnow’s shadow when you can no longer see the fish. 85 it must mean bridges that sweat thickets and murderers who sit with their palms turned up. but there is no word for this. in the clearing, consider how everything changes should you betray love. you are a wetland, capable of bogs. you are a sudden cliff. 86 ...