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Utah Agave

Kyle Hemmings

    Out from the canyons, limestone on the rim, the girls walk single-file & zombie-eyed. Seep willow is their past; steam orchid is what passes for blood. Now they stand before me & hold hands.
    They want to tell me what they saw at the bottom. The schist & the tree frog, the redbud that spoke in riddles & never shed a leaf. How the acacia & the salt cedar betrayed Proterozoic lovers. One girl cries exotic crystal tears.
    & even though they are dead, they look like any other girl before a red sun, squeezing cacti in her hand, fire ants across the skin.
    They will tell me that at the bottom of the creek, a cave wren sings in musical code that only love can save them. There is nothing more and nothing less. I know because I am the secret tourist who was once walked behind them.
    They keep trying, Lord knows how, to recruit me back into the life of blind limestone. It was love that killed us all.



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