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Lulled by a curious animal
the hunt is going forward with sleepy shots
led and caboosed by men who don't notice
their lack of luck, or mercury leavings
from the measurement of alternate stars

Ledge of a general shop's overhang
light loving the outline unchalked
of a customer who dove deep in the tar
with a spray of glass dulled
in its design to be breakable

Our haloes shelled open
shovel tongues aglow with coal
what we swallow in comrade rounds
is vivid in her torso
prey that learned to hold in stasis
what we venture to disturb
and are born by