2 September 2003 | Vol. 3, No. 3
Six Billion and the River
I was once told the infant's eye
is able to drink water
from a curved leaf in China,
and when they sleep,
birds catch their lashes
and use them to build nests
that never fall.
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There must be some way to open
the navel, to let the world and all
its memories be sucked in
to the spine, to pull apart
the ribcage and hang
the lungs from branches,
let the wind sing them dry.
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They say the queen had the Mexican moon
in her movem