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a vacuum  
quiet as shadow 
 
  
a deepening blanket 
hushed and muffled as snow
 
  
 
a darkened crescent spreads 
splayed red fingers 
handprints on stone
  
only the light of the 
breathing
 
  
speaks
  
 
 
singing wellness 
presence 
desperate to deny the absence 
of half 
of its mutilated self 
 
 
this weaving of sparks 
disappears into a vaulted ceiling 
of silence 
  
memory lost
  
 
  
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