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Vincent Clay

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Amongst the disfiguring guano<br /> solidsullydripping down the runnels of a fluted dome<br /> are compounded the digested bodies of<br /> million mosquitoes<br /> that have passed through beak and sphincter<br /> of migrating swallows.<br /><br /> Deep as the days before antidotes<br /> in this birdshit impasto encrusted are spread<br /> (become their own sepulchural shell)<br /> the souls of men these swallows saved<br /> from a piercing, an itch,<br /> from a death formerly typical<br /> of this once malarial lagoon.

 
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