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I followed handclaps into a forest clearing

saw a basement through the mesh of the floor needles

there was a messenger there with no center to stand in

unready to receive, I only searched

the branches for the usual birds

the clapping went on beneath a river

or a highway

I follow it inexplicably

and I'll meet the one with sending hands

only when I've become

both chirps and paving

so send for me

with sounds of flesh meeting

I'll try for a scaffold that carries

birds with nothing to escape:

a rapid signal, that does not hurry

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