It flows in the depths of the body, a dark river
of muddied waters and deep desires
ancestral lymph midst furriness and urgency.
In it dwells a river dolphin, ready for the leap,
and it attacks so other rivers may be spawned
and life may not abort, but gush, gush forth forever.
Cabral, Astrid. “River Dolphin in the Body.” Trans. Alexis Levitin. Cage. Austin: Host Publications, 2008. p. 39.
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