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∴ imagine—
calculating mice with schemes
cheese as the ransom ∴

∴ pervasive—
chasing starlit horizons
hope hums through the dark ∴

∴ swamp swallows barefeet
each step a shifting rune—
rise, through mists, onward ∴

∴ crumbing ash
spirits of our ancestors
embers ∴