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  • Washing the Corpses

    Washing the Corpses

    –After Rainier Maria Rilke     The washers have lived with death as they have with the lamp, the flame and the  dark, the nameless rinsing of limbs, the even more unnameable nameless. without histories relative to them. Their sponges dipped the water then the silent throat, trickled rivulets on their faces, waiting for it…