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narwhals and my hands over my head

under rade desk

too sh

to protect anyone

We move apart,

two of us

two of them

one up toward grassy sunlight

and the escape hatch

a narrow, razor-angled way out

of the 20th century

The other

distant as a lighthouse,

a lithe blue body flashing through heavy water

heading down, into a private,