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               Protecting the body from an understanding of the world
            skin-covered radiant heat turns prodigal electrons
          a mysterious paddlewheel someone thought of tying
       and in times of calm or ax a tithe of the poetry by which the smell of my hands
     flapped upward toward the treetops the rounded rock
                    pale, ethereal blue suddenly liberated
                       draws jaw downward, raises tongue; elevates pelvis
                          thorax fixed: right and left together its digitations resemble the notches of a saw
                              bends clockwise on itself
                                  after cooling the shores
                                         it becomes