tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13709466403110465022024-02-07T23:58:42.120-05:00IMAGININGS IN VERSEPoetry by Ana KyriouAnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14477733502039127636noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370946640311046502.post-87433731630549627022019-06-08T16:58:00.002-04:002021-08-23T01:43:11.400-04:00Like Magic<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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claimed the habit, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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cloak threaded with silence<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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reduced —<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14477733502039127636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370946640311046502.post-54401056052429338052018-10-17T10:00:00.004-04:002021-08-23T01:46:18.642-04:00Looking at the Derveni Papyrus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14477733502039127636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370946640311046502.post-90100247884861424512018-05-19T04:30:00.004-04:002021-09-25T21:21:06.834-04:00insolvent<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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love me or look upon me with disdain,<br />
like me or consider me irrelevant, </div>
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this person before you</div>
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this that I am<br />
the glue you're too bored to find a solvent for</div>
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I am your creation, Magister. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">I saved up all I was, hadn’t done, not yet killed, forgotten games I had played, and whose fine afternoon unravelling by the book, both taking both, then you unceasingly perfect, we sinuous </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">I accept everything, I accept nothing. That yes, that no, that something: poetry like love is and isn<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;">’</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>resurrection —<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>does<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>it change<span style="letter-spacing: -1.1pt;"> </span>opinions,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>bring a change<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>of heart? Lament<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>and celebration,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>poetry and love: involuted, sinuous</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I pick one up and score <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">each pole circling — but not too deep <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">cutting superficially, merely grazing the orange with my blade<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tough skin<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From slight incisions <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">dimples turn fragrant <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">at a moment’s notice or when the time is right<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Peel it, taste<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">moist orange orange <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">lips and tongue, saliva and sweet juicy flesh all one<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">my green scent for love <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Unless<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">postponement takes a knife to desire<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">unless I’d rather not <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">because I pretend I’ve forgotten how <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Crunching the fruit, a crunchy orange</span></span></div>
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Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14477733502039127636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370946640311046502.post-89239163099582198862017-08-14T23:39:00.004-04:002017-09-07T15:50:27.247-04:00imperfect joy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">grainy beneath <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">white round <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and time round <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">battered into shards <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">piercing for universal reminders <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">all wide long </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">curving <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">moving mounts farther out still <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">evening hadn’t yet approached nor had this been <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a perfect day, although there was joy in it still<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the woman with cigarettes and coral lips <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the young man sitting by the entrance, his tousled hair <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a girl with the skin, she thought, of a giraffe <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">none of us happy although joy to the day still<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I placed my hands beneath his arms and we walked <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">clear translucent <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">warm, always brackish in these parts</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and rows of grapevines heavy with fruit:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">there’s no joy taking things for granted.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">for a </span>while<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I could find the indentation of my footsteps</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">then my toes started kicking up dust<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">startlingly beautiful, a</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> perfect disk approaching the horizon</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">swimming back to a metre and a half standing <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">but sometimes the sea tried to bring me to my knees<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The sea can be funny that way. Thalassa, I like her. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">as I was saying, some things are heartbreakingly beautiful<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the night breeze arrived, it knocked the salt off my gums,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">that kind of breeze. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’ll wait as long as it takes<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">waiting slowly </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">— </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">slowly </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">obscured the brilliant orange</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the solitary dot near the cloud-empty horizon <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">but wondrous our earth</span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">apart at red green spectrum </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">but luminous, and myself alight</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">sliding below the line of the horizon <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">to a sunrise<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">my lost love, my love </span></div>
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Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14477733502039127636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370946640311046502.post-55315294765568637252017-08-10T19:13:00.009-04:002021-09-25T22:52:50.042-04:00Circles<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">At the café, they set tables on a narrow stretch<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A wedge of shorn grass giving way to rock, to sand, to shore<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Staged by an unseen hand to entertain the wanton inclinations of fate<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A tale unfolds: chance in the fading twilight <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The woman approaches in silence <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In silence resting<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Her cheek against the back of his neck </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">—</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Done quickly lest time run out,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lest he say no, her arms<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Encircle<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s needless, he thinks, and after all this time too much of a liberty<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">He pries them apart with easy execution <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Half annoyed half curious he stands to bow in greeting<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">When he spied her at that table with her chatty friends what did it matter?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The hour was late and the ache buried.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Unobserved<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">He focused west into the riot of purple-saffron hues.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">You’ve grown a moustache she says<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’m thinking of shaving it off he replies<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Her voice is mellowed by resin-wine<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And sea</span></span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"> mist has settled on her lips. </span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">He remembers the taste of her lips </span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">They stroll at the edge </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Where broken waves drift ashore</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;">Pebbles and shells crunch </span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;">Quelling stretches of silence</span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;">In this diffused light of their twilight </span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><br /></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let’s climb there, the woman decides<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Where will it take us that path?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Below, the deep is wine-dark <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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There will be more, later</div>
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Later is getting later, later</div>
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Because later doesn't come even when it's later later</div>
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And you know the ethilon later the cloaked later the stapled. </div>
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Feats of later I feast on later fist of later</div>
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Mute later, no, no, not this, this is a later</div>
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Gift of later arriving later eeease of later is<br />
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Junky does like some junk later</div>
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Mollify with later</div>
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Vein vain later</div>
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I dreamt<o:p></o:p> you were peddling books</div>
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In front of the art museum<o:p></o:p></div>
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Used books — although <o:p></o:p>—</div>
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Generous with nuances<o:p></o:p><span> </span>between its covers<o:p></o:p></div>
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Suave towards the curious passersby<o:p></o:p></div>
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Psychology<o:p></o:p> no longer in vogue,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Things to rid.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You had acquired new spectacles<o:p></o:p></div>
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Gold rimmed and stylish<o:p></o:p></div>
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To outfit your new outlook<o:p></o:p></div>
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Your new views<o:p></o:p></div>
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And you said to me:<o:p></o:p> look, I am flying!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Agile like a panther<o:p></o:p></div>
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My feet were rooted on the pavement</div>
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I was taking you in, every inch of you<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One by one words lifted off the page to stretch out </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in front of me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">each word life,</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a heartbeat, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and each heartbeat your whisper</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /></i></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In my dream they transformed into images.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>reach, </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>reach a bit farther</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>appearing effortless to keep</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /></i></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">... as the canvas I once fell in love its beauty cut just enough </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I allowed the pain to remember the </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">grace</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Freely, as brushing your forehead </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">soft </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">weightless </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">kissing </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With my fingertips</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As you begin <span lang="EN-US">your voyage to Ithaka,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 48px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">filled with adventure, filled with enlightenment.<br />The Laistrygonians and the Cyclopes,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 48px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Many the summer mornings</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">when with pleasure and glad anticipation<br />you sail into unfamiliar harbors<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 48px;">or stop at Phoenician markets<br />to acquire beautiful things:<br />mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">voluptuous notes<span style="line-height: 200%;"> of every type,</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">may you visit many an Egyptian city,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 48px;">Always in your mind hold on to Ithaka.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 48px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The arrival there should be your purpose,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 48px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and reach old age before mooring at the island,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 48px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">wealthy with all you gained along the way,<br />and without expectation that Ithaka will give you riches.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EL" style="line-height: 27.6px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Σα βγεις στον πηγαιμό για την Ιθάκη,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">να εύχεσαι νάναι μακρύς ο δρόμος,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">γεμάτος περιπέτειες, γεμάτος γνώσεις.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Τους Λαιστρυγόνας και τους Κύκλωπας,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">τον θυμωμένο Ποσειδώνα μη φοβάσαι,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">τέτοια στον δρόμο σου ποτέ σου δεν θα βρείς,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">αν μέν' η σκέψις σου υψηλή, αν εκλεκτή</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">συγκίνησις το πνεύμα και το σώμα σου αγγίζει.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Τους Λαιστρυγόνας και τους Κύκλωπας,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">τον άγριο Ποσειδώνα δεν θα συναντήσεις,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">αν δεν τους κουβανείς μες στην ψυχή σου,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">αν η ψυχή σου δεν τους στήνει εμπρός σου.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Να εύχεσαι νάναι μακρύς ο δρόμος.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Πολλά τα καλοκαιρινά πρωϊά να είναι</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">που με τι ευχαρίστησι, με τι χαρά</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">θα μπαίνεις σε λιμένας πρωτοειδωμένους·</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">να σταματήσεις σ' εμπορεία Φοινικικά,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">και τες καλές πραγμάτειες ν' αποκτήσεις,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">σεντέφια και κοράλλια, κεχριμπάρια κ' έβενους,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">και ηδονικά μυρωδικά κάθε λογής,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">όσο μπορείς πιο άφθονα ηδονικά μυρωδικά·</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">σε πόλεις Αιγυπτιακές πολλές να πας,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">να μάθεις και να μάθεις απ' τους σπουδασμένους.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Πάντα στον νου σου νάχεις την Ιθάκη.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Το φθάσιμον εκεί είν' ο προορισμός σου.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Αλλά μη βιάζεις το ταξίδι διόλου.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Καλλίτερα χρόνια πολλά να διαρκέσει·</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">και γέρος πια ν' αράξεις στο νησί,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">πλούσιος με όσα κέρδισες στον δρόμο,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">μη προσδοκώντας πλούτη να σε δώσει η Ιθάκη.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Η Ιθάκη σ' έδωσε το ωραίο ταξίδι.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Χωρίς αυτήν δεν θάβγαινες στον δρόμο.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Αλλο δεν έχει να σε δώσει πια.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Κι αν πτωχική την βρεις, η Ιθάκη δεν σε γέλασε.<br />Ετσι σοφός που έγινες, με τόση πείρα,<br />ήδη θα το κατάλαβ</span></span><span lang="EL" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 27.6px;">ες η Ιθάκες τι σημαίνουν.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It hurts, it hurts beyond hurt</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i>He is smiling </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">— </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I am happy</span></div>
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Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14477733502039127636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370946640311046502.post-88457394408402298302015-06-30T20:54:00.002-04:002021-09-02T16:57:13.066-04:00GARDEN, MINE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What enchanted flowers grow here.</span></p>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">A winsome, all white</span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Or all black, smooth fur. </span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">A small swollen spot </span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Covering the sanguine rush</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">We got ready to bury her</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Some bones were shattered</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Soon she passed out of memory</span></div>
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Hard<o:p></o:p></div>
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Under earth chambers<o:p></o:p></div>
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Stairs and carved stone<o:p></o:p></div>
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The sphinx waited — each morsel of soil brushed<o:p></o:p></div>
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Despite the unbearable heat, hot<i> </i>heat <o:p></o:p></div>
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Descending surface<o:p></o:p> seek<o:p></o:p></div>
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Even river water is boiling: desire heat <o:p></o:p></div>
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Lips lips, melt, want,<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #3b3838;">That</span></i> </b>heat<o:p></o:p></div>
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However<o:p></o:p></div>
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The powerless sphinx with chiselled face </div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">and in awe<o:p></o:p></div>
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We kist in the sleeping room<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am resting my bones<o:p></o:p></div>
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Said the general, a real general, commander of<o:p></o:p></div>
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A lot<o:p></o:p></div>
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I don’t give a fuck <o:p></o:p></div>
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Vibrated the voice of infinity<o:p></o:p></div>
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Your names <o:p></o:p></div>
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Your silk and gold upon mattresses<o:p></o:p></div>
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The titles of a crowning halo<o:p></o:p></div>
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All fineries all spoils: bishops and queen, <o:p></o:p></div>
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Checkmate (i<span style="color: #323e4f; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">t always ends in checkmate).</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The<o:p></o:p> only rules that apply are mine<o:p></o:p></div>
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Plus permanent suffering.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Everyone’s are gonna get brittle eventually<o:p></o:p></div>
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Deossification? Diagenesis? Dust?<o:p></o:p></div>
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I love the energy<o:p></o:p></div>
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Inconsequential<br />
Subatomic<br />
Infinitesimal<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dusting particles in my backyard<o:p></o:p><br />
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The weaklings think fear<o:p></o:p></div>
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The strong need weaker game<o:p></o:p><br />
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Electrifying<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> It</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> Has</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> Been</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> This</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> Way</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> And will continue to be.</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> What change? </i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> What change?</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> </i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> </i>Never change<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is the way I love you<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> It</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> Has</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> Been</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> This</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> Way</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> And will continue to be.</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> What change? </i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> What change?</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> </i>Never a change</div>
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The tumulus curves like a wedding cake with<o:p></o:p> a lion on top<o:p></o:p></div>
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Who swallowed the bride and groom<o:p></o:p></div>
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These things happen no need to be innocent about it why are you crying <o:p></o:p></div>
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Little girl old girl why are you crying <o:p></o:p></div>
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Below as beyond<o:p></o:p></div>
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Turbulence and chaos and a black hole<o:p></o:p></div>
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The buried virgins tall and amply carved turned into marble<o:p></o:p></div>
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The matriarch was mortal after all<o:p></o:p></div>
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The general’s family was bludgeoned to death<o:p></o:p></div>
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The horse was cremated but its spirit lives on<o:p></o:p></div>
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The baby died: Megalocephaly<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was a beauty to behold <o:p></o:p></div>
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For the noble and<o:p></o:p> courageous grand style<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ll remember you, promised infinity<o:p></o:p></div>
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Parts in synthesis, you do you understand me?<o:p></o:p></div>
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It will be magnetic but without purpose<o:p></o:p></div>
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Exists where gravity <o:p></o:p></div>
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Twisted<br />
The shape of infinity while moving through static <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> There is no limit to infinite love </i></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span> </span><span> </span><span> Never</span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> </i><i>Boundaries to boundless patience</i></div>
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<i> There is no limit to infinite love<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i> </i>That’s such a lovely song, sing it again!<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i> There is no limit to infinite love </i></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span>Never</span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> </i><i>Boundaries to boundless patience</i></div>
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<i> There is no limit to infinite love</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>1: Night<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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One by one <o:p></o:p></div>
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Lights flicker and snuff out<o:p></o:p></div>
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The city is shutting down<o:p></o:p></div>
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A street organ is playing<o:p></o:p></div>
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Spinning the music of long ago<o:p></o:p></div>
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Songs of desire and loss<o:p></o:p></div>
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Songs of betrayal<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wine-soaked singing<o:p></o:p></div>
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Molasses the sounds<o:p></o:p></div>
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Drifting in the jasmine scented night<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>2: A Dream<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Come to me shadow and starlight<o:p></o:p></div>
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Come for one unmeasured moment<o:p></o:p></div>
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I want<o:p></o:p></div>
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Flesh to flesh<o:p></o:p></div>
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Interlaced<o:p></o:p></div>
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Your stubbled salt cheek<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p><b>3: Salonika</b></div>
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They were two <o:p></o:p></div>
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And holding hands<o:p></o:p></div>
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Before, I had known them as one and one<o:p></o:p></div>
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The girl's hair yellow like ripened lemons<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fell in sharp angles around her face <o:p></o:p></div>
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Her man laughed a confident laugh<o:p></o:p></div>
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He enjoyed laughter<o:p></o:p><br />
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I understood<br />
Too late Too close to twilight</div>
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After the ravages took hold <o:p></o:p></div>
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I took stock<o:p></o:p></div>
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We wandered leisurely on the promenade<o:p></o:p></div>
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Heading westward toward the tower<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was a prison once<o:p></o:p></div>
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Its captives, who were they?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bruised souls with forgotten names<o:p></o:p></div>
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Their screaming silenced now<o:p></o:p></div>
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and ashes, ashes<o:p></o:p></div>
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returning southward to a home lost</div>
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ashes moving through space<o:p></o:p></div>
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dispersing over the beloved hills<o:p></o:p></div>
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over the familiar sea<o:p></o:p></div>
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she carried her numbers, bright blue <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>4: Time</b></div>
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We sailed into the small hours<br />
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The two-masted caique was brightly lit</div>
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Its crew calling for passengers</div>
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He was first on the gangplank</div>
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And it was a floating bar we walked into<o:p></o:p></div>
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No particular time chuckled the waitress</div>
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We close when we run out of customers<o:p></o:p></div>
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Heineken with a light misting of seawater <o:p></o:p><br />
He said</div>
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This drink has a pleasing taste,<br />
Produced by hugging</div>
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Hugging?<br />
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The gunwale with one hand<o:p></o:p></div>
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A mug of beer with the other<o:p></o:p></div>
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We swung by our table for refills <o:p></o:p></div>
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As the boat rocked<o:p></o:p></div>
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As the breeze picked up<o:p></o:p></div>
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Our careless chatter <o:p></o:p></div>
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The broken clock<o:p></o:p></div>
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We are sailing still<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 150%;">Of my cloistered awakenings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 150%;">Again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 150%;">The memory of an impermeable clasp<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 150%;">Unmeasured brightness, unmeasured sorrow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 150%;">As I am spinning, spinning <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14477733502039127636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370946640311046502.post-460031153606781592015-03-07T06:35:00.001-05:002015-06-30T21:08:11.906-04:00a poem without verse<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">each wave at a standstill <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">petals lightly curved <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">an abundance of petals <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">blooming fruit <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a poem without verse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">glimmering, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">evening glimmering <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> dream of the vigorous delights<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">yield to the memory –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">dewdrop, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">how it nearly brushed across
your lips<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a fragrant sigh,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it was ephemeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the pleasure, the caress<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> of roses, of love </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14477733502039127636noreply@blogger.comPennsylvania, USA40.104966649080978 -75.23437538.542365149080979 -77.816162 41.667568149080978 -72.652588tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370946640311046502.post-20483909228170899422015-02-21T15:16:00.001-05:002017-09-11T22:08:44.756-04:00Plenty Of Stone<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Stark and therefore more beautiful </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So beautiful that it calls out</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Its striking plainness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The lack of verdant lushness <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Low grasses and weeds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Clusters of thorned shrubbery<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sweetened dust and pungent myrrh<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Soil is at a premium here</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From shapeless rock</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">An amphitheatre was chiselled<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To glorify important lawmakers perhaps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Or to appease a thunderous oracle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Such a long time ago it was<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The rain owns it now <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Veils of time cover it <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Snow and wind and sunlight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Orators, spectators, their substance altered <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Who were they? But they were, once<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As you and I were once</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You called out to me </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I could have touched your heart </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But for the stone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14477733502039127636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370946640311046502.post-84208291792702686602015-02-13T12:00:00.001-05:002017-08-25T18:26:13.543-04:00DIRTY LAUNDRY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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“He’s dead,” she said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Yes, he died of cancer;<o:p></o:p></div>
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I heard about it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Did you know him?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I knew <i>of</i> him, mostly.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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He was not her sort<o:p></o:p></div>
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Therefore she tried to recall<o:p></o:p></div>
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All she could<o:p></o:p></div>
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This was intrigue to her<o:p></o:p></div>
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Three at the kitchen table <o:p></o:p></div>
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In the cupboard across<o:p></o:p></div>
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The cherished wedding china displayed<o:p></o:p></div>
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Green scrollwork on white background<o:p></o:p></div>
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This visitor next to me<o:p></o:p></div>
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Had an air of elegance<o:p></o:p></div>
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But which elegance?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Trait or pretence?<o:p></o:p></div>
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She continued:<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Once in a while<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’d run into him at a coffee shop.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“What did you think of him?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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She narrowed her eyelids,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thought,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Answered:<o:p></o:p></div>
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“He was somewhat of a rascal.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I considered him a reprobate <b>—</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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He cursed a lot, tough guy slang.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I don’t remember <o:p></o:p></div>
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Cursing or slang,” I said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“How could you remember? <o:p></o:p></div>
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You were so young!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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This from our hostess<o:p></o:p></div>
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As she poured coffee into porcelain cups<o:p></o:p></div>
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Green scrollwork on white background<o:p></o:p></div>
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“He had a mistress,<o:p></o:p></div>
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She was young, <o:p></o:p></div>
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He bought her a car<o:p></o:p></div>
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They say he paid her rent, also.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Our hostess poured cream offered sugar<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Sounds as though he kept her,” she said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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An old friend<o:p></o:p></div>
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She guessed why my curiosity<o:p></o:p></div>
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“What did his wife think?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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I asked.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Nothing to think. She put up with it.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“What happened to the girls?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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I always worried about those<o:p></o:p></div>
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Two daughters of his<o:p></o:p></div>
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Worried for their safety <o:p></o:p></div>
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They took the entrance exams</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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The son of a bitch<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wanted them to attend<o:p></o:p></div>
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My school <o:p></o:p></div>
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Did he still carry a knife?<o:p></o:p></div>
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I didn’t ask<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was happy to hear<o:p></o:p></div>
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What the visitor said<o:p></o:p></div>
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Even with limited information<o:p></o:p></div>
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I felt avenged <o:p></o:p></div>
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It showed, his nature<o:p></o:p></div>
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He was a<o:p></o:p></div>
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Slick<o:p></o:p></div>
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Crafty<o:p></o:p></div>
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Knave<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s been almost half a century<o:p></o:p></div>
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Have I lived that long?<o:p></o:p></div>
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When I think of<o:p></o:p></div>
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Those late afternoons<o:p></o:p></div>
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During childhood<o:p></o:p></div>
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His presence hovering </div>
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My state of confusion </div>
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Hands smothering panic<o:p></o:p></div>
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I start to believe<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ve lived long enough<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hang it up, hang it up<o:p></o:p></div>
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Filthy shard of an old<o:p></o:p></div>
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China cup<o:p></o:p></div>
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Spectral memories<o:p></o:p></div>
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Coil in the background<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hang it up they hiss<o:p></o:p></div>
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The three of us had coffee<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hot, strong<o:p></o:p></div>
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Late June<o:p></o:p></div>
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Late afternoon<o:p></o:p></div>
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The cool Sunday breeze<o:p></o:p></div>
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Inviting after<o:p></o:p></div>
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Saturday’s wedding<o:p></o:p></div>
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And we guests tired<o:p></o:p></div>
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From the night before<o:p></o:p></div>
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I live in the margins of life <o:p></o:p></div>
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Those nightmares<o:p></o:p></div>
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What did I survive them for?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14477733502039127636noreply@blogger.comVirginia, USA37.240824669887104 -78.66210937535.630725169887107 -81.243896375 38.8509241698871 -76.080322375tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370946640311046502.post-87578052700522619472015-02-11T18:51:00.001-05:002017-09-22T17:43:32.790-04:00 Safely Hidden<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The act of living</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The reliving</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Softly an</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> ending </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A mournful sonata <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Time paused</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Broken strings</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This one snapped during practice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This one? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I can’t remember why this string died<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I hold on </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To broken things<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Safe in its hiding place<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My white embroidered cardigan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A gift once best-loved<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now out of vogue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Its pockets </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Filled with broken violin strings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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