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And a girl now in flesh circling others the same feeling the stone touching
the same as it rises from the flow beneath with light crashing atop
showering motes and motes of water on shimmering skins and mouths gasping
and bodies diffusing from water to air to water around ankles around feet
pulling away between toes in spaces circling to a tighter current within
itself tightening and bits of women and children whirling away dusting
snatches of hair and scales of girl and one within not knowing not breathing
no way of knowing but taken out of breath to beyond where familiar she knew
and sputtering her flails and gasps on a burning heart and others around not
knowing not seeing but knowing seeing what they have gathered to feel and
touch with hands claws voices their own circling and circling above in
watery skies in watery clouds of colors and above a streaky bloodred dashed
across cloudflesh squalling and dripping its song feathered with flaring
gold plumes and trills fluttering down and asking in the same fluted voice
what gave the breath to breathe and sinking what moved one in one direction
and not another sinking and what things stayed inside not to emerge but
sinking and drowning now screaming the women around the stone clutching
hands and breaths on it circling not knowing seeing anything and settling on
the leaves in the branches among the trees perched there high above in one
direction looking down in one direction the red blaze knowing seeing what
the others could not what they were doing now none of them but for the girls
of them but for two girls of them but for two girls of the same of them and
chirping HI! two girls voices the same HI! two voices the same in their
chirping HI! and catching them now heads turning and flock taking flight
first one and fast others and one of them reaching out with soft hand out
and other soft hand in the hand of another out and the other hand in the
hand of another out and the other hand in the hand of another to many out to
many in to finally joining tree and stone to fluttering water.
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