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Blaspheme: To peel an orange with a hammer—

mantle the ground in blood say the tree is not the mountain.

Polytheist: Dog who loves more than its master, a single child of two parents.

Xenial prohibitions: Do not offer up your children to guests.

Holy: A thing diminished by speech.

Deify = or ≠ defy.

Love = or ≠ deify.

Explain any of this to a broken heart,

god of breaking, god of blood, god of teeth, god of buds.

Omen = or ≠ Oh, men. Amen:

unmanageable—the wings propelling air into lungs,

crux of being = breath.

Negate = or ≠ negotiate, novitiate, neophyte.

Ken this: Ken that I long for bird song, ocean crash, sky-widening

revealing largenesses.

Infidel: To peel an orange with a saw, mantle ground in blood,

flout songs of birds and mammals of the seas & wind in trees.

Sex is the wings of everything that moves the earth—

quill with which maps are drawn,

abundance counted & laid down, laid up into

ziggurats, to hang like gardens upon

twittering of trees, upon

wind’s word—

very song from very song—

year spooling into year, green with longing,

just inside the orange’s skin.

Xenial (adjective), hospitality to strangers.