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"Operation Avalanche" 60 fingers and their nails, 60 fingertips unique as snowflakes never snowed again melting in the desert air, surrounded by thousands of rounds of ammunition and howitzers and mortars, caved in the walls of a house once visited by a terrorist (did he sit in the kitchen and eat an orange, did she knock on the door for a glass of water?) 6 mouths crushed beneath a wall, 12 legs and arms in an avalanche of stone, 6 tongues, an infinitude of pebbled hair, 6 galaxies of pores opening starmouths in six limestoned skins, 6 hearts and miles of arterial networks, 6 belly buttons with flesh eyes closed to six mothers, 6 fathers knotted in the collapse of 12 eyebrows, six sister kidneys lying in a pool of tears, lymph nodes as gone as distant cousins, 12 nipples never kissed on 6 fledlging chests, unspecified number of cock and cunt never opening or unfurling into another, 6 universes of neurons no longer firing their tongues of fire, 6 urns of char, 6 ceremonies of mourn, officials of nothings making 6 funerals into political weddings, marrying necessity to sadness with inevitable regret, hierarchy of sins, hierarchy of suffering, angels helpless before the rage of man, and 24 hands, the stinging of 12 ages in the eyes Rebecca Seiferle 9:19am Farmington NM