#7
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!I
A ~rippling Humbaba ~seized
between stems the ~halfway sun
turned at the fern edge bold with
their metals their arms and brace–
lets yarn threading their ankles
mouths stopped with resins airway
broken these outcasts with Song
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!II
He ~clad him Humbaba wrapped
between pine stems unripe sun
turned at the fern tip drew with
their aura no arms nor lips
forced yarn below their ankles
mouths and airways open each
sapling broken ~wound with Song
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!III
Humbaba in seven bruised
among saplings night in its
fields weave at the fern tip ~turned
whose aura whose lips nor grief
unwound airways their breath their
thickets ~open each hill–side
lapping wept—broken, in ~Song
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!IV
Locked seven they arrived to
gather among fields worn at
the fern stem seats Humbaba
whose aura lip–smart grief–high,
air–ways open each thicket
lapping the hillsides ~quickened
trail–unbroken–stilled of Song
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!V
Wept, gathering among fields
stern with their aura the night
in its quickening stormed whose
fern–leaf turned in the rain ~cast
from his lips–the pine ~broken
among saplings the hillsides
lapping, ~shades outcast from Song
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!VI
Shored Humbaba fierce–in–wings
came steady among fern leaves
the stems unbroken unripe
grief quickened from flood–mark yarn
in their metals their unwound
airways ~tongue with its resins
shadows open–passed, as Song
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!VII
Turned from its aura clad with
his metals the fern edge grown,
~cast where their ankles unripe
air–way open among sap–
lings his tongue in its shadows
unsteady in pine thickets
seized Humbaba–wept–as–Song