My mother’s ceramic hands collected anything that breaks
laced as a condor’s egg
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In the article, barrels of DDT tumor the floor between my coast and Catalina :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
In the article
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a million years of human bone are proof
of Bergmann’s and Allen’s rules, how the body’s shape retains or dispels
its own heat
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Someday, I will be nothing but limbs
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I used to be girl enough
I braided dry clasps of conifer for wood nymph crowns
I was careless of shelved fragility
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broke my mother’s livid blue figurines, how I learned the seizing air delivered :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
in my father’s fist
Between my diaphragm and the dislocated world
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I’ve placed a girl inside the room with swollen-shut doors
She knew bracing makes everything worse
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and braced anyway
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In the article, earth is warming faster than thought
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In the article
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melt might start a new ice age
