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2 | title: The ocean overflows with camels | ||
3 | genre: verse | ||
4 | |||
5 | id: theoceanoverflowswithcamels | ||
6 | toc: "The ocean overflows with camels" | ||
7 | |||
8 | project: | ||
9 | title: Elegies for alternate selves | ||
10 | class: elegies | ||
11 | order: 7 | ||
12 | prev: | ||
13 | - title: Ars poetica | ||
14 | link: arspoetica | ||
15 | next: | ||
16 | - title: The boar | ||
17 | link: boar | ||
18 | ... | ||
19 | |||
20 | | We found your [shirt][] deep in the dark water, | ||
21 | | caught on the clothesline of sleeping pills. | ||
22 | | Your head on the shore was streaming tears | ||
23 | | like sleeves or the coronas of saints saved | ||
24 | | from fire. The burning bush began crying | ||
25 | | like a child who misses his mother. Traffic | ||
26 | | slammed shut like an eye. God's mean [left hook][] | ||
27 | | knocked us out, and we began swimming. | ||
28 | | Bruises bloomed like algae on a lake. | ||
29 | | Your [father][] beat your chest and screamed | ||
30 | | for someone to open a window. The air | ||
31 | | stopped breathing. Fish clogged its gills. | ||
32 | | Birds sang too loudly, trying to drown out | ||
33 | | your father's cries, but all their sweetness | ||
34 | | was not enough. No polite noises will be made | ||
35 | | anymore, he told us, clawing your breastbone. | ||
36 | | He opened your heart to air again. Camels | ||
37 | | flowed from you both like water from the rock. | ||
38 | | God spoke up, but nobody listened to him. | ||
39 | | We hung you up on the line to dry. | ||
40 | |||
41 | [shirt]: lovesong.html | ||
42 | [left hook]: roughgloves.html | ||
43 | [father]: angeltoabraham.html | ||