Andrea Rexilius

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     Selection Two

0/140, 0/150, 0/160
Yet speak, furthest from the earth. Speak first as one, no not as one, as two. The sun hidden behind a hand cannot see to count the stitch by. Stitch blind. Night: a dark dress falls over half a hemisphere.

A world bitten in half, a cheek bitten round, circumference of the mouth, tongue a thread to speak by. Tongue a thread unraveled.
One moment: I must find mine. Must muster breath to guide the line. Not of fabric torn. The knot unbound at my navel find. Circumference.

0/170
Pin the fronts together and inhale.

0/180
Commence at the waist, line.
Hem down.

-0 / 0
zero. zero.

-0/180
A coarser needle, exhale.

-0/170
To draw out the pattern, breathe.
Sew air along the seam.
A narrow ribbon binds space.

-0/160, -0/150
Where the thread goes through. Eyelet. Circumference of the gap. Dots the letter i. Thread the line.

Two selvages together make the horizon no longer visible as the horizon. The sun does not shine at noon. On the opposite edge.









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