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Ars Poetica<br />

beckons like the salt and sweat of a first kiss.<br />

This is why we carry on so. Knowing hunger<br />

is but the first test. Like this. Only faster.<br />

The season turns. The wind’s slow sway,<br />

the frostbite and flame, the infection creeping—<br />

I thought myself too tired to go on.<br />

Then you appeared, as if from California<br />

or heaven, and held out your hand.<br />

My ghost-bones stirred.<br />

I let you in. You carried me out.<br />

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