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2title: 'The ocean overflows with camels'
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
4project-order: 12
5genre: 'verse'
6...
7
8We found your [shirt][] deep in the dark water, \
9caught on the clothesline of sleeping pills. \
10Your head on the shore was streaming tears \
11like sleeves or the coronas of saints saved \
12from fire. The burning bush began crying \
13like a child who misses his mother. Traffic \
14slammed shut like an eye. God's mean [left hook][] \
15knocked us out, and we began swimming. \
16Bruises bloomed like algae on a lake. \
17Your [father][] beat your chest and screamed \
18for someone to open a window. The air \
19stopped breathing. Fish clogged its gills. \
20Birds sang too loudly, trying to drown out \
21your father's cries, but all their sweetness \
22was not enough. No polite noises will be made \
23anymore, he told us, clawing your breastbone. \
24He opened your heart to air again. Camels \
25flowed from you both like water from the rock. \
26God spoke up, but nobody listened to him. \
27We hung you up on the line to dry.
28
29[shirt]: lovesong.html
30[left hook]: roughgloves.html
31[father]: angeltoabraham.html