There was a lot of hugging.
With each hug
came a unique sense of emotion
and physicality.
At the same time,
as the numbness wore off
came an objectivity
of the torso being hugged:
the muscular, the thin,
the stooped, the trembling,
the indifferent.
Hanque O . . .
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