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contortions scenery eschews
.......with paint-by-number
cerulean, pointillist fingers felt-at tips-- a splot
meets splat--dangerous
.........centrifuge &

................................................entropy

perhaps a bloated bristle
.........tip to dust away
........................heathers

consume the half-eaten .............O
.......................when it was fatter
.........as a baby, bald and sterile
screaming
canoe--

oh, Cayuga,
my matchless
fingers--

.................but she would need an island
........................in her throat
...............to struggle
against the wind-blown......... kayak
leaning against an archipelago
.............or Yucatan edge

yet we’ve already left
...............the coastal labrum
...for something much colder; so cold
..................it lacks name,
definitive presence