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there are
days when I forget
how you left
me wilting in the rain -
a doll in
wet stockings outside that café on Left Street
th..
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heat
rises in wrinkled waves here,
beside
the pool, as I lay cheek to concrete,
draining
the liquid from my ears,
but
still the soun..
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an
army of ants built this hill
moved
the earth and cut the door
created
arteries in the copper sand
with
single-minded acquiescence ..
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A walk would do me good,
they said -
a
brisk jaunt at water’s edge,
to
stain my pale skin pink, and fill
my
lungs with hopeful ..
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all
women have secrets --
little
treasures hidden in boxes
decorated
with dream-silk
and - perhaps -aribbon of guilt
what
we h..
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There
is a chill to this October eve,
enveloping
me like a bride’s veil,
all
gossamer and silk-- white roses
blooming
along ha..
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There
are gradients of love -
deep
hues without grace of names,
that
taste of mango and honeyed pear.
I
search with my fingertips..
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the
water is boiling pasta swims
beneath
sparingly salted eruptions,
as
I uncork the wine tonight Merlot
splashes
into a curved top B..
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what
are we if not the foundations
of
a beginning dawn breaking lightly
upon
a sleeping city upon this house,
waking
first the Palms ..
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incandescent
circling this is life,
as
we paint the sky like fluorescing insects
connecting
the dots of constellations
buzzing ev..
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