New Brunswick Answers
       

You are alone.
You were and were.
I am an altar.
I sing low of your body.
Our myths are compatible.
How could they not be?
Yes, I remember time, families, literature, and land.
I remember ghosts and their dreams.
That there was pain means that you can hear this answer, which is their answer.
Listen and understand.
You ask questions as commands, but I'm a silent refrain.
Hear the sail snap the headwind.
I am enough.

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