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and,
in fall,
underway again
as -

in rush those hands
stretching the sky's face along
a distended world wall whose
conventions smudge graffiti

- reversing this historic elsewhere,
smearing the 'a' in caution to restore advance

a fleck of existence
glides towards a lone thumb
grasping at uncommitted joints

to catch,
and catch again

as bi-fingerly, we translate touch into the dialect of skin.