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The Semicolonizers
Chad Davidson
They peered at the wonders of the Orient--
precarious gardens, mist around the ankles
of the sacred mounts--and plopped down
their gear. They applied language like a balm
to the indigenous, calmly spreading it along
the contours of the dangerous rivers of faith,
worked it into the monument cracks
whose faces they found wondrous, possessed,
and portable. They left ajar the crypts of pets,
threw caution to the wind, which, to locals,
was a god, though that term was never used.
They chiseled away the jewels of idols,
dismantled their elaborate headdresses,
their disdain for the living. Such work, they found,
was horribly tiring, and so they drank the water,
which they called miraculous, or, if they found
the water possessed, damned with language.
Being what it was, the water said little,
and in a tongue unknown to them.
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