NINE SIGNATURES In your head, slender curlicues of blood sign for memory Your heart lays itself out for a census of one or two or The signature on your palm is effortless and when you take my hand we press our names together One leg signs for the other and the other signs for the first The signature of the medium of flight, vision and burning is registered in your lungs The signature of heaven is all orbits and explosive dots, it fits in the corner of your eye Your name might be a mistake, but bad handwriting can cover that There is a man of gold whose signature is a luxury, whose first name alone clears all obstacles I know a woman who signs with her hair
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