'Small inequities magnified by intervening vapors'
...... Lydia Davis
Ah learning how to walk again
Triumphant statues
Erectus victorious
while
Cicadas whine as children die
in Calmouk
Camels give milk distilled to
dizzying confusion
Headlights approach
"crumble ye tyrants --
may there be nothing
in your way"
Eyes glaze as centuries quicken
chants
Echoed by the Anunnaki
Travelers from Ethiopian art
As Sumerian Scholars
Scream from ancient tablets
lost
In the land of Shinar
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