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28 The Chrestomathies of Omecíhuatl, Giver of Life Appendix to the Gospel of the Brown Adam Is my birth a reason, a corporeity bound to guilt? Our body is the nave lathed from the ceiba, from fragmented unities. King David raped the south wind / bathing in the brook / laid in spice. He tore / Bathsheba’s breasts with lips, / their fragrant reed / sung. The pomegranate trees / flared bronze, the woman’s eyes, / doves strapped to a seat of purple wool. Recover betray al of your seed, the “I,” hands made of bitter wax. 29 How? When? Remember, while you sleep, I will touch your lips to possess no tongue’s shape; rather, seas sealed beneath splintered ice, the generation & name. In the year after, I will write: —/ hollowed within eyes / In the year after, you will write: —/ of tears & blood clots / ...

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