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Set a Watch, O Lord
 Sinuous and mute within its bony cage
The bulbous inmate tongues the ivory palisade
In mucous damp.
The uvula stirs:
A rush of air
A shaft of light --
Transformed, the rooted prisoner flicksthe raised portcullis,
Shapes the words that sear, wound and curse,
Bless, caress and pray.
O Jehovah, "Keep the door of my lips."
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