: ~ a springy fire set inside pear prickles the vocative , a now bubble now that's a thing your nervous system might have been one of the paths on the Tree on earth , oddly like as night where she was musing , under sap , blazed in here , hushed in under cover of , , : ~ a springy fire sets arm in arm on the athlete sea of interpretation bushes where the moon was waxing under sap , here we make up the arbornauts travelling around the islands and the forests-of-summers amateurs we called ourselves ~ a forno with which to scratch her nickname , soften a groove into a belt trout pan , her initials into how a highway feels ; ~ : ~ taking space out hanging it up along the clotheslines in that hour of the trees : ~ the Brancacci chapel winds might have been one of the paths of the tree Blazed in here , hushed in here under cover of painting : ~ The springy fire set by one long experience on earth , , On earth , through that roar gap makes through trees ' velvet amateurs : ~ no longer ashamed to be a tree-like belly the I is laid upon , as if emblazoned in vowels it must be the poise of the Linden leaves he is swimming with : ~ it might have been a structural tense upbraiding in and out of her saying what is the plural of one that on their lapping undersides snake eggs lay their little heads ——
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