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Garments of pretense
taken from corpses
... given to corpses.

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No scratches in stone
no diggers, no rising winds
... the crow's last shadow.

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Artifice of steeple
artifice of hall
artifice of window and wall.

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Music undanced
plays in unfeared winds -
why, why shade the dead?

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Veil or flesh -
not a dragonfly's name
... the dragonfly.

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