serendipity, serendipity by Charlotte Baumgard (16, Pennsylvania)

it left you splintered 
with 
clefts in all ten fingers, 
your hands rendered ineffectual 
yet still able to support a skull 
so hike up your head ​

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and 
start shaking out the evocations 
of 
smiling at the solecisms 
stenciled on the supple skin 
of 
a serendipitous sun person 
and 
cyclical summer sirens 
singing seismic psalms 
to 
suspecting souls of sundry

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