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Abroad Among the Limbless | Poem

 
 
 
Abroad Among the Limbless


 
The dust of anathema seeps


 Like the slowglass it will

 One day fuse itself into

 Beneath the roiling sky;

 Grains turned to mere

 Bubbles in the mock turtle's

 Final oration.

- David W. Mitchell



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