guarded
                                    the Buddha

“along with”

 Dirt. Rock. Salt.
(the antiquities roadshow)

             ~•

Whose blood
moistened up
the earth

goddess?

           ~• 

Exotic pet
tales
of everything that creepeth

The snake only stating the facts. 

           ~•

                       “before that”

The first people
& their footprints

(mostly children and teenagers)

Aquatic ditch grass
filling each
foot-boat

The particularity of
the toes.

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