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