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Courtesy of Lygia Clark

tractor beam pulls to insectly skies
tractor pull, gridly

but the insects move far more beautifully than this.

..:..

(
don't read this as transcendence, historian!
wake up!

love couldn't be any more immanent
if it bit us right in the neck
like a mosquito or a
zombie avatar clone Deleted.
)

..:..

shield your eyes
with static veiling,
a dark potential is our present house

a question, unsayable.

fleshly, sung from afar.

silently singed,
we roll out the sparkles
grounded with lygia Like
in a real-life basketball dream.

Date: February 21, 02011
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