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OURS IS THE DEATH-WIND

By Nafre Hellulander




 All things pass in the ebb and flow 

of self-annihilating breath. 

Our souls, though held fast to 

our bodies—breaking, falling inuksuit 

of bones and meat— 

they are but structures not yet touched by the wind, 

or toppled by a strange breathing 

something out there. Or these souls of ours, 

they are 

but the wind itself, not yet 

risen, not yet pulled---suddenly, 

then swallowed up 

by a most dreadful blizzard 

that a moment ago, 

was only breath. 


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