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as the meat within the shell as the shell before the caw a bleached weed a fig dusted to sweet the skin egg albumen of peacock butterfly held to the ivory of oxen hoof pulling the space between sins                    I am as I am so the host                             on the tongue God of Bread complexion of conquest the salt of Lot as God is a crown of thorn diadem of wheat so am I the echo calling fossil back to name amaranth ash                    spread across the light