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Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows.

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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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