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Bones - journal for the short verseno. 19

March 15th 2020

Bones

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Bauhaus -anchored ships that suit the wind

Adrian Bouter

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heavy bass the urban wilderness

Agnes Eva Savich

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the willow’s birdglints fiberoptic of butterlight fronds shimmerglide

Agnes Eva Savich

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a hypothesisoozing off first thaw

Alegria Imperial

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veined stone could be window dressedfor mastication

Alegria Imperial

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night gogglesin the haunting distancea thought is it?

Alegria Imperial

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tidal maw all in but for a platoon of ribs

Alegria Imperial

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contrived

crepuscular moan diluted with milk still mawkish even with a witch’s pheew

frost-devoured the name of a rose not just a notion Januari-ed un-trapped glass eyes possibly crumbed blunder-debris ocean discards split tongues wildly wagging about deliverance whopping cough in a while nose stalactites pool under bulrushes ashen dawn mid-wave an elegy lancing a sea crone wind-shift rocks bedded limbs drowning with basic stars undocumented since

“decayed” scrawled on foreheads of swine basso-grinding a retort on loose snouts

Alegria Imperial

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doctor’s widened eyes on the curves of ECG

Aparna Pathak

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the space because it is not scientifically proved

Aparna Pathak

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surely some day it will rain a holy river

Ashish Narain

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candlelightthe midnight hugof red parentheses

Bill Cooper

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dry cough the lion dancer flinging lettuce

Bill Cooper

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menstruation the screeching parrot

Carmela Marino

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wrought ironclad alibis

Cherie Hunter Day

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drizzle matrix without the rattle element

Cherie Hunter Day

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the abridged version viral load

Cherie Hunter Day

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Nocebo

The negative side-effects of a harmless substance work by suggestion.

torchlightrunning back to the hollow

Cherie Hunter Day

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You Can’t Tell Fire What to Do

Firebugs attend burning houses like weddings—the making of one body.

first respondercool where the firefliesdraw flame

Cherie Hunter Day

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silent crows flying to the edge of others’ raucousness

Craig Kittner

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more waiting before they consecrate the elements of gradualism

Dan Schwerin

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first day of springthe easing in each cellwill teach you everything

Dan Schwerin

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appointed to sunless days a saint stays in the glass

Dan Schwerin

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pronouns first a reading from the Exodus

Dan Schwerin

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when to stop the cloud never gets clear

Dan Schwerin

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a hard scriptureabout the bread of presencedrawing a fly

Dan Schwerin

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software updated to fry an egg with a smile

David Boyer

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the button we never pressed fish under ice

David Boyer

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that happy laughter in the distance always thin trees

David Boyer

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stochastic erasures to provoke the blood in deep winter

David Boyer

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in your town the story sold in slivers coated with hard plastic

David Boyer

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starlings synchronize in salmon clouds over ice

David Boyer

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those days of astral travel now just a skull in the bin

David Boyer

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Baily’s beads an orchard and its black fruit

David J Kelly

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cold as a stone is like a raindrop

David J Kelly

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further rotation severing the lunar limb

David J Kelly

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summerstillnessand ournappingand thesunlightripeningpeaches

David Käwika Eyre

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ex-conairconsitcom

David Käwika Eyre

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evening stars twisting the long arm of the law

Elmedin Kadric

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down to the bone holding its own icicle sun

Elmedin Kadric

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once bare trees spring to mind

Elmedin Kadric

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the sound of the key turning in the navel

Ernest Wit

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rubbingagainst your stigmasa pollen-covered bee

Ernest Wit

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you sometimes diein the afternoonscent of pine needles

Ernest Wit

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an ocean the sand an ocean

clouds in the ocean the ripples

the skythe soundof light

waves from the sky crashing down

the sandinside an ocean the sun

the sky an oceanwaves

wavesin the sunof sand

clouds and the ocean the sound

wavesof sandthe sky

crashing light the soundof sand

a grain of sand the sun

the sun and the sky an ocean

Fractled

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through the mouth of snowdrift a crow caws

shadows at flight a reckoning to behold under hoarfrost

Fractled

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briny bones a grand oasis in the black watch

Gary Hittmeyer

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a blueprint of forgotten faces as divine mosaic

Gary Hittmeyer

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next phase darkness reigns at the edge of reason

Gary Hittmeyer

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the well chilled handwill escape undergroundwith permanent textures

Gary Hittmeyer

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do not lean on the water

Geoff Pope

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godinink

Geoff Pope

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circles of waterskippers reshape the trees

Glenn Ingersoll

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not even a clothespin on the line blue

Glenn Ingersoll

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technorunesreading the monitorsin the er

Gregory Longenecker

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in the lead-up to lent, the ego sets upon the narrow road leading to its crucifixion

southern seas hidden wounds El Niño beneath the dark night’s the celestial stream stigmata of stars

Hansha Teki

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altar ego blank page a word for bread what species of treebroken apart died for this?

Hansha Teki

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pause within a pause figures in light does the gull crying above showing forth the obverseensure the sea’s sea-ness? in being observed

Hansha Teki

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“yes” a voicelighter than waves to lay all doubtsthe word to bear to rest

Hansha Teki

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night terror all alonedream-decembering silence beats harderbeing almost born lacking fulfillment

Hansha Teki

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a cat’s eye through the dark nightafflicted with the unseen loomsmetonymy eye to eye

Hansha Teki

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poetry reading word shadowsthe sounds of a hand-to-mouth adding weight to the gravityexistence of their situation

Hansha Teki

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beginning again eyes never meetingwind dialogue with rain while all the timeocean with rock overlapping

Hansha Teki

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an ear at day’s endpoised to sip the horizon on the brinkincoming silence of being afterglow

Hansha Teki

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subcaveemoji

Helen Buckingham

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flytippingpoint

Helen Buckingham

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nocartooncatastrophe

Helen Buckingham

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arcane darkroomundead negatives

Helen Buckingham

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leftover bread a conspiracy behind cawing

Hifsa Ashraf

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stepping over the shadow that goes north

Hifsa Ashraf

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work:

just twig being a clown one lifetime

Isabella Kramer

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work:

otters playing cricket while the moon is a disk overripe

Isabella Kramer

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work:

radiator blues every eleventh pling a gargoyle's giggle

Isabella Kramer

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apace for the duration bar tab

Jackie Maugh Robinson

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lost footinga finitudeof polar bears


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last tobacco pinches moonshine lies


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hearing a crack in the suicide

Jo Balistreri

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broken lips the kiss of sutures

John Hawkhead

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rock in the streamwater flowing left and rightis still water

John Hawkhead

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but moon

what shapedo you

shift into

whennew?

Joseph Salvatore Aversano

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nowhere a smoke plumein the blue wash

of sky thepale runofffrom a

sunrise


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in all of theswaying a stem


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the gypsy’shorse

tethered toan open

field


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nothing left everything

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a rockwaits

till nolonger

left fordead


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the wordfor moon

more moonin which

tongue


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the bay mirrored half moon dusk


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Heaven& Earth

comingdown &

placing alltrust in

the stepjust below

just belowthe above

withinreach


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Sea Wall(in multipleexposures)

the wallfrom thesea upover thewall fromthe sea


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Lightning Bug *

some of twilight clasped

a palm glows phosphorescent

a darkness grows small

* after a visual piece by Carole KimJoseph Salvatore Aversano

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first swing a unicorn gives birth on the back lawn

Joseph P. Wechselberger

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preferred pronountoday, an ice cubefor the orchid

Julie Warther

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did Ganga dream of being the city’s sewage .?

Kala Ramesh

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montage and the god of small things

bouncing shadows in dialogue with sunshine long corridor

Kala Ramesh

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or the fish homes become everywhere

Kat Lehmann

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bone brothel

Kelly Sauvage Angel

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daybreak your form fading into cats

Kelly Sauvage Angel

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where the truth tendrils into horseshit into god

Kelly Sauvage Angel

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were that you were tomato bug

Kelly Sauvage Angel

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the embedded code permeating into the shape of an egg

Ken Sawitri

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pea pods pretending not to know

Lee Gurga

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angelsabove thepath beyondbeyond dawnwind

Lee Gurga

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whatif desire what if what if what if

Lee Gurga

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whyor why not breezeends atthe sea

Lee Gurga

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Beatles 2020

all downhillan oil spill rainbowThe Fool on the Hill

runaway bushfiresravage AustraliaCry Baby Cry

police surveilpeaceful protestorsIt’s Only Love

royals optfor a simpler lifeIt’s All Too Much

COVID-19or AirbnbHere There and Everywhere

one war endsanother beginsMisery

polar ice calvesinto the sea It Won’t Be Long

LeRoy Gorman

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pitiless sun all in black the living

Lisa Espenmiller

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too slippery to peel a pregnant onion

Manoj Sharma

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the city can wait in the car park the moldau flows on

Marie-Louise Montignot

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red light full blast snoop dogg vs ludwig van not even looking

Marie-Louise Montignot

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unto or fromhymns

for less than a warm body

Markeith Chavous

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crowd around the Internet campfire eating someone’s leg

Michael Nickels-Wisdom

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a dry age, the money locked high inside translucent institutions


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giraffes live quietly now in the Midwest as orange daylilies


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the horizon smoking a cigarette like a murderer


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the missing two-holed button silently pleads


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the money flows into the emptier rooms, revealing an elephant


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remote viewing through a snowman’s eyes, blackbirds


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autumn fog her name not being autumn fog

Michael O’Brien

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autumn leaves mccoy was cooper

Michael O’Brien

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in the shade of jupiter Dolley serves ice cream

Michael O’Brien

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after turning its head the giraffe just stands there

Michael O’Brien

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autumn rainfinding its nationalityyour suicide

Michael O’Brien

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, whilst throwing snails at an apostle’s tent,

Michael O’Brien

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Incantation

elder alder ash . . . the litany of treeson the shoulders of

birch beech buckeye . . .an incantationto begin with

linden laurel oak . . .what strengthin the name of

willow walnut hickory . . .shaped by age intoelder alder ash

Peter Newton

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anxiety an ocean the children begin to drift

Rich Schilling

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city lightsbodies that movebodiesthatdon’t

Rich Schilling

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silentthe bread slicewith no mould

Robert Davey

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cocktailsshe runs her fingersthrough her genes

Robert Davey

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OWL of absence asid

e em

bold

end

upst

rike

back breaking pot belly

Ron Scully

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sunrise E

departures arrive crosscountry

ligature of shinning seas

Ron Scully

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sssnakessssssss

spineless, sideways, shadowless

begin and end with sibilants

Ron Scully

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one night stand with a shelf half as long

Rp Verlaine

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new thirst :: a hunter at a chasm

he wasstonewoodwaterempty

Samar Ghose

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a dead jackal slips its corpse

therainstood silent

Samar Ghose

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so many of the old have often praised so many

so far it appears

from

the joke

the quickand easy

is the flight

the oxen make this same flight

Samar Ghose

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staying on the bus

you are

the refrain

Shloka Shankar

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tomorrow crushed by the weight

Sondra Byrnes

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daylight saving clouds have their own say

Srinivas S

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first snow every time first snow

Srinivas S

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the daily transmutation of muscle into marble

Stella Pierides

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a woman’s work inside her locked spine

Stella Pierides

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twilight. Every seed in his spine thirsted

Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

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a rifle. Cast grey from intermittent rain, this dawn

Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

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if consciousness is #1 lacquered bread

Victor Ortiz

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then she gulped a dark passage tightening with every step the gorge

Victor Ortiz

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Editor:

Johannes S. H. Bjerg

Photos by Chris Dominiczak

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