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there was a moment now
a decade ago, one summer
in Paris, on the only hill
in a sacred heart
above Montmartre. It was Sunday
and the choir w..
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a rabbi said the messiah
sits just outside,
at the gates into the city,
waiting
not for the pious, or the
sinners needing redemption
but for m..
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Dear M_ sh _
there were nights, most nights
milked and honeyed
I would run, headlong into sleep
knowing I would find you there:
waiting, re..
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there is a certain blessing
to forgetfulness, the way it can,
like those paper presses,
confess a years worth of flowers
into bookcases, notes a..
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I felt it before it even loosened
the strings that kept the feeling
taut, confined by
the breath in your lungs, the
absence of your exhale
punct..
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you're like fire and water, you burn me
up, up only to soothe my marrow,
the serpentine coiling of
my own effervescence, the ricochet
of light..
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before I enter
I remove my shoes; maybe
it's a holy place, and maybe
it's purely for comfort
so that when I come to stand
at an angle in the..
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It's like seeing the sky when
both the moon and the sun
are visible
and you know it's day; you know.
you do. you know that this
is the reali..
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Some nights the river floods,
its brackish bank mixing
the mud with the first oceanic minerals,
the spiral of grit, galaxies at
the grindstone b..
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om guru deva.
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