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Vocabulary Lesson – by Dennis A Gura
the noun of the world is exile:
when not-space, not-time burst
into being
fragments of not-space, not-time
flew that way or another
each aching to fuse with
its broken neighbor,
exile pounding it down
and God set the angel,
flaming sword in hand,
to...
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