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10 Tether The thread of your blood—thin silk suddenly knotted. I cheat— loving the hawk, her talons through my glove, my vein standing purple attention. The clamp of that foot, the sport. Messy affection gaudy as blisters, winter’s blood clock counting mice or pigeons at the base of an oak. Shiverers! And this one— released then reeling me home to her. All that I’ve seen is emptied from me like Judgement. I am divisible from the mindless grip of this world where your tiny body burst— 11 your blood rare red as columbine your breath released as relic— from your feathers turned ash in my hands. ...

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