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The Glass Sponge.(Poem)
THE GLASS SPONGE Pheronema Carpenteri Your body housed inside a nest of glass, its lucid needles woven in radiant networks like a dozen webs of spiders sewn into a dome and coated with a layer of liquid quartz so that they are fixed as crystal around that softness which the sea flows through, that softness full of holes. Cascades of glass twist down to rope you to the sand. Or one potent spike of glass stabs the sea floor ...
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