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Time—do not be

a devourer—

we will set aside

our lucent skins

take off hair and

lung—carpal and

sinew—set aside

heart and—skeletal—

dance along the sides

of the tar sands

along the length

of the pipelines

and in the hollow holds

of the tankers waiting

to be filled

Mother—is there another

dance we might perform?

Working in a circle

healing ourselves our

relationships and our world—

space is what we’ve

laid waste to

inside and out

accumulating the capital of

the crazed glaze of commodity

now—working in a circle

replace cell phone with bird call

jet ski with water fall

refinery with otter dive

pesticide with bee hive