from Myths and miscellany: Some instructions: IV: Ionization and nightmares
Christopher Arigo

Invisible from the air / lines bind the land

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lightning alchemizes our reflections and reversals

choreographed in redshift but

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��������������� the ocean's restorative alchemy / its anaphoric waves slapping beaches I love

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ocean—the desert's doppleg�nger

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consider this my last request

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Note shadows unable to maintain their borrowed shapes

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Runoff carves rivers given enough time / a valley in which myths reside

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Note how a mouthful of pennies tastes like blood / like the sea

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Or bury me among red rock unmarked unknown except by a few—my final fuck you

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(it is best not to offend the sea)

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Add this to your anthology of nightmares / to my catalogue of last requests

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