A Silence by Amy Clampitt
past parentage or gender beyond sung vocables the slipped-between the so infinitesimal fault line a limitless interiority
beyond the woven unicorn the maiden (man-carved worm-eaten) God at her hip incipient the untransfigured cottontail bluebell and primrose growing wild a strawberry chagrin night terrors past the earthlit unearthly masquerade
(we shall be changed)
a silence opens
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the larval feeder naked hairy ravenous inventing from within itself its own raw stuffs' hooked silk-hung relinquishment
behind the mask the milkfat shivering sinew isinglass uncrumpling transient greed to reinvest
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names have been given (revelation kif nirvana syncope) for whatever gift unasked gives birth to
torrents fixities reincarnations of the angels Joseph Smith enduring martyrdom
a cavernous compunction driving founder-charlatans who saw in it the infinite love of God and had (George Fox was one) great openings
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