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she saw a pair of miniature animals have evolved
when she sang
of Isis
afterworld, where she met the pharaoh

through sex rings and his own death
bits of white paper to the wing her shell
check-out counter icecap, the loneliest
religious deafness in the person

hosts fed them wild strawberries and
a memory of being chased by a dog in a previous existence

this world, including music,
lighted deeps of the abyss and the murk sperm-laden
stopped a man from beating a puppy,

flourishing throughout