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any joy           


the voice she has
is low, cracked
often mistaken for a man's
too seldom used for
she's not a talker

yet sometimes still
it weaves and thrums
word melodies
from deep inside
the hermit cave

a hermit fire lapped
in shadows
of that original country
she's never visited
but intimately knows

mostly, though
the voice she has
is low, warped by
a corrosive lack of any joy
to sing for


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