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AFTER IKKYU: 27 by JAMES HARRISON

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First Line: I CONFESS THAT HERE AND THERE IN MY LIFE
Last Line: OF GODS A RUG SPREAD BENEATH OUR FEET.
I confess that here and there in my life
there is a vision of a great brown toad
leaking words of love and doom through his skin,
excrescences that would kill anyone, given time,
his words tinged as they are with the shapes
of death, one drumbeat, a heartbeat, the skins
of gods a rug spread beneath our feet.



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