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-title: The ocean overflows with camels
-genre: verse
-
-project:
-    title: Elegies for alternate selves
-    css: elegies
-    order: 7
-    prev:
-        title: Ars poetica
-        link: arspoetica
-    next:
-        title: The boar
-        link: boar
-...
-
-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.
-
-[shirt]: lovesong.html
-[left hook]: roughgloves.html
-[father]: angeltoabraham.html