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The butterfly from Muzo flies in the tempest: all the equinoctial threads, the emeralds' frozen paste, everything flies in the thunderbolt, the air's ultimate consequences are shaken, then a rain of green stamens and the emerald's startled pollen rises: its great velvets of wet fragrance fall on the cyclone's blue shores, merge with the fallen terrestrial leavens, return to the homeland of leaves.