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22 WRAPPED UP, IN What’s worse? I asked. Fire brighter. Cold wins. She drummed words out between beating teeth. Body of bone bundled in the ashes of her skin then sealed in the dazzling beads of needing and sweat. Her eyes are swathed in jaundice yellow but reach like ears far beyond the bush to the crushing hum of the waterfall mask, a blanket of sound that hides the way freezing now has her heels denting dirt. Please try to hold still, the doctor whispers. Warm rag on forehead like a kiss too brief and barely too long. I am, she says as I will. Birdsong along the river. A drum signals dinner. The waterfall explodes. Chickens cock-a-doodle. Children laugh loudly. Please stay still. She is still. Children laugh louder. 23 “Human Malaria Parasite Arose from Gorillas, Not Chimps” — title of an article in Scientific American ...

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