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title = "秋津"
date = 2023-10-10
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    failed morphosis
    she faced the exuvium
    fledging and yet
    clipped dragonfly

    as a fruit awaited
    the days to bring color
    to harden her wings

    she drank and healed
    ate the heads of bees
    and once more the mold
    proved not made of herself

    it was the river
    the digested sting
    coated in pollen
    in thick hemolymph

    those into which
    she was made and where
    she too would devour
    later and now
    holometaboly