A lizard with no tail
looked at me and its flicked tongue
said: Belief in punishment
is punishment, belief
in sin is sin.
Its eye like a black stone
said: Love is punished
terribly. Belief
is a dry torrent.
The fire I die in
flickers my bright wings.
[Ursula K. Le Guin {1920-2018} 'In that Desert', from Going Out with Peacocks]
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