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Penance is something broken off and thrown back, like a sweetness that pierces your thoughts when all at once you remember someone you dreamed of last night. It was someone unknown. Just at dawn he was there, gleaming, shuffling. It makes the night transparent to think of. It makes the night incomparable. You dreamed of black arms shaking on the edge of the world. Reaching back for that, you drop through a freedom so clear it is simply pain. Corazón nuevo means “new heart.” It is a place you reach for through your skin, which goes silver, through shame burned black on you, through a thirst that we cannot describe, to where he is cooling his wings in the stars like a pond, looking down at them trailing around him on the dark water–look, there is is, vaguely marveling–oh beloved, who could catch your eye?