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And
it came to pass as they
journeyed from
the east that they found
a plain
he
yearns for mountainous and
wooded country
bending
down he hears the singing
sands
before
him seasons change all friction.
it's
just heat he thinks blows
the blood stink
from
him nasally as he has seen
old men do their
snot
driven by tobacco and sharqi'd
grit but still
there
is humidity when he knows
dry should persist. Then
some
merest redemptive shift
across his skin dunes twinkle
flatten
to billions of quartz and
feldspar and magnetite
particles
but he knows nothing of
this
at
first
Mommy twinkle, twinkle-hushes
him against
the
back drop of his pointillist
kit
his
digital
camo blend his will little
star
below
the line of sight to where
their nearest assists
Tigris
and Euphrates meeting steel
was his re-
solve
but all dissolves to Enheduanna's
grief and as
she
howls Inanna the earliest
writing the first wheel
her
successor
Enmenanna too as wrinkle-free
as his ACU
how
I wonder what you are real
as
monarch
Sargon up above the world
wearing
a
horned headdress beckons
him
to
strip
so
that he was not a hunter
disguised as a tree
but
as
you
an' me in clear Akkad crystal
so high like a madman
naked
briefly in the sky jumps
a
contemporary
soldier needs to be blended
into the
flow
if
he can fly diamond just
turned 20 the night floodplain
puts
on a terrific history
statistic
quiet
now
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