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Cars stalled, the light gone hazy under leafless sycamores-- nature's diction, as casual as you asking for a last glass of water, whispers in my ear words cotton-mouthed and sere as sloughing bark littering the roadway, rush hour traffic halting, faltering like my hand the day I signed away your flesh to the crematory fire ...