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dent de lion Joy Reid Did you gather them chant the counting verse huff between lines? Did you snap the hollow stem pause to absorb the bubble wrap pop blink as the bitter milk sap swelled to form a pearl? Did you wonder at those leaves lion-toothed yet innocent of ferocity? And when you exhaled - tenderly released another ardent haze what did you make of that denuded stalk?

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