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+title: 'The ocean overflows with camels'
+project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
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+We found your shirt deep in the dark water, \
+caught on the clothesline of sleeping pills. \
+Your head on the shore was streaming tears \
+like sleeves or the coronas of saints saved \
+from fire. The burning bush began crying \
+like a child who misses his mother. Traffic \
+slammed shut like an eye. God's mean left hook \
+knocked us out, and we began swimming. \
+Bruises bloomed like algae on a lake. \
+Your father beat your chest and screamed \
+for someone to open a window. The air \
+stopped breathing. Fish clogged its gills. \
+Birds sang too loudly, trying to drown out \
+your father's cries, but all their sweetness \
+was not enough. No polite noises will be made \
+anymore, he told us, clawing your breastbone. \
+He opened your heart to air again. Camels \
+flowed from you both like water from the rock. \
+God spoke up, but nobody listened to him. \
+We hung you up on the line to dry.