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Prayer of the Exile in the Dust Storm
Ashley Anna McHugh
ENHEDUANNA:
Silence the streets, and let the city fall
to ruin -- barren shrines unswept, the gods
disguised by dust; collapsing in the wind,
abandoned homes -- the only signs of life
are what was left behind: a bowl of flour,
still nestled on a window sill, untouched;
a woman's dresses, folded near her bed;
the dirty curtains lifting in the wind --
or the small forgotten trinkets of a child,
clay carving of a bird, a strand of wool
once intertwined with flowers for her hair --
Destroy it all, my Goddess. Strip it bare.
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p2: defenestrate
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