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In earth-cancer’s
ambulatory halfway house
between diagnosis & post op labs
the tipped horns of the crescent moon
pour night’s Prussian blue
down on Venus
hidden like La Niña
in an ashen half-shell of clouds
crisped by a climactic dusk of industrial rosé