The package says
"Hermetically Sealed"
Does that mean solemnized by ascetic monks
living in the desert with only sand and vows
and three words a year,
praying for the souls of mankind?
There is a small gasp of sound,
a cry of hope? relief?
sorrow? sympathy? joy?
as the wrapper opens,
echoing, perhaps, the half-spoken,
unthought longings
of the hermit and his order,
sealed away in the hinterland
of elsewhere,
breathing a language
I can't hope to fully understand.
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