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an aftermath of standing

gray stones

Blood remembers before language, the cut. Gulls cry above. A seal below looks, turns. She disappears. The land’s stop, the mouth of this space yawning sky. How small the body inside the throat of this hour.

Author: Stacey C. Johnson

I keep watch and listen, mostly in dark places.

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