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