Are we safe,
hidden in the highlands,

hunkered down on the homestead;
are we far enough away? No one enters

the lands beyond our gate.
But the contagion needs no

invitation. The contagion
does not wait.

The highlands are infected.
The contagion rattles

at our gate.

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