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This is what I remember of life:

the glans of a penis, smooth as an acorn,

split like a cat’s eye with a vertical pupil.

Weeping pearly tears.

On a salmonberry, the swollen drupelets

quilting its surface with peachy clitorises.

Words like frogs, their sudden leaps

and pulsing, thin-skinned bodies.

The singing when we stopped to listen.