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Patti Smith: She is Risen

Holly George-Warren, Option, May 1996

"I was feeling sensations in no dictionary
He was less than a breath of shimmer and smoke
The life in his fingers unwound my existence
Dead to the world alive I awoke."

Total word count of piece: 2751

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