The Human Element Re-Membered

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Fingertips split,

sprout tender

green shoots

left unkindled.

Toes lengthen,

grow scaly bark,

rooting into earth

like serpentine

tubers while tendrils

of wind-whipped hair

ascend skyward to

twine about the points

of the new horned moon. 

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