with one arm I circled you lifted your thin corrugated body over
the rocks to give you
your true weight
to the river
then
watched the years vault up through you
volcanically your resistance humming
like the rusted edge of a wind-rubbed bell memories
of the violations against you surging until your fists shot open and
you erupted screaming
as if suddenly swallowed by fire
and I sank to the bottom of my own fire roamed
the glowing coals looking for shadows to shroud
your ruptured molten sanctity
I was useless lost in this custody
my ashes settling between the stones settled between us
my smoke following weaving your echoes.
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