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“Two parts of her body seamed together in a way they should never have been. She remembered resting in a hospital bed, staring down at the handfoot, wondering if they told each other secrets.”

Words, the prophets
Tell us, destroy
Nothing they can’t
Rebuild. I did it to hold
My father, to free
My dog. It’s an old story, Mother,
Anyone can tell it.

“The heat lasted until nightfall, and all the time he had to carry his jacket. But when he thought to complain about the burden of its weight, he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had withstood the cold of the dawn.”

“Now the dead can rest at peace at last….And if there should ever be life again, it would grow out of their decomposed bodies and not out of the stone things that were condemned forever to lifelessness. I pitied them, the dead and the stone people. Pity was the only form of love for human beings that remained to me.”