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Epic Hums

(to be read aloud)

She's like a poem
everything moves in symmetry
from free form
to so significant it hurts --
hum
hum
drum.
air pulses
sleeps and pulses
with the grace of
electricity
and I forget
what it is
to be so human
drunk on one thousand
and one ways --
to say
that "it be night"
I sleep
and the earth
graces the clouds with
starry eyes --
whistle
whistle
and humdrum
so so -- that no one
keeping rhythm -- can escape the dance
by rotations per minute
and roll down the street
without so much as a shell

--Sarah Clarke





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