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The heat code rasping from a naked belly
time-shaft suspended by sunlight
an archway of minnows and hummingbirds
steps collapsing into the garden
for the file cabinet in a mental hospital
and the letter opener that bears no trace of blood
on the desk every morning
all the creatures in their familiar positions
a door deep to the outside, a stairway
the shoplifter's girl follows
mirrors all over the store laughing
in a maze where the blueprint burns
summer was bursting into twins
with two couches on a gravity highway
with two burnt spoons for the road wavering
with two jellyfish knapsacks on the front seat
an hour before the invention of rock n' roll
down on cigar corner or french-kissing
in front of the police station
the stillness of summer wets, the land on stilts
the lunar seasons interweaving
with the dry inside-outness of a raw farmer
who waits flintlike in a cave
grinning and groaning
for the flocking of hours
the momentum of impossible events