khipu

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maybe all

you ever lose

reminds you of

the original loss

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those threads

running through

vein, cartilage, bone

knots like khipu

absence recorded in

language only your

ancestral body

could know

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blood spilled

for stolen thing

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hurt as something

intimate and familiar

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maybe loss is a vehicle

for remembrance