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Untitled by Heather Napualani Hodges

The thing was attached, (to child, its angry tree, each cold fruit).



............If I had hands, it thought, I would bind myself to you

in the way that monks thread their bodies around the fire that ends them,



............where each rotation becomes a prayer,

where each unwinding lessens the distance.
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