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field of Mars
 
sleeping on the cold dark ground
where all the numbers are. start 
calculating in my dreams this meeting
place. stars as far away as it is
to be human; where do they end
and the will - o - wisps begin? the night
spiders I invent and multiply come
forward across the crashing variance
of sedimentary rock ( - skin? ). I open my
mouth in case I awake and find
myself gasping my breath having
it snatched from me by the
envious / speaking of which
of things not designed
to be finished...