MARCH 1997		T H E RAVEN C H R O N I C L E S
Seattle 1946 Where It Pinches: Okinawa Untitled ABOUT MIRA CHIEKO SHIMABUKARO		untitled for W. by Mira Chieko Shimabukuro   Barefoot, night widens as we sleep. Above, wings breathe at the body clasp, the neighbor's cat curls on concrete. Reins loosen in an open field, cottonwood flies free. Mountain streams in our palms, we let loose the cat on a city street. Barefoot and lashing tongues, we skin the night, salt-wide and deep.
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