The shadow is the ice meltingdown ravines of drowned hipbones,beadings strung in the sunlight.
It rubs its head betweentwo stones, peeling back its skin turn-ing itself inside & out.
A shadow as soon as this stretcheslike a cad in tall seagrass. Thisone casts barbed, spear-like missiles.
Men are shadow. Women are too,from past lives twirling inside whitemountains. Smooth, flamenco calves.
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