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#45
Gold-leafed, your refuge, closed to you, trails behind you, your heart, broken, mends itself of yesterday my heart, laden down, trails behind me, my refuge, closed to me, opens its doors to you, you, trailing behind, wrap your hands around my scattered pieces, drawn out, close to you, the future, unfolding, factures along your fingertips,…
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#44
Wolf-shard, piercing, sorrow breaks bread at our table frost-shard, rending, you, betrayed, having lost it all, find yourself, threshed out, dreaming my love, the world-shard shudders beneath our feet, the Exile, weighed down, too understands the weight of a soul, you, weighed down, remember
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Author’s note
To my valued readers, My most recent poem, while close to my heart, was posted unfinished. I will be re posting the finished product this evening after work! Thank you all for visiting this labor of love and for your continued patience with my artistic process!
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#43
Collector of misshapen hearts manifestation of your madness condense like spite upon the windowsill, trespasses of mind and body find themselves crosshatched, residing before absent gods we, outlasting them all, serve witness, you, outlasting us all, alone, serve to witness, your flint-shapen becoming
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#42
Stowaway fled alongside April sever the spiral that which escaped the threshing floor, thrice reconciled and made manifest before a convergence of fortune and fate imposes itself once more you, flower of my heart, shelter our rose, you, inviolable, resist
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#41
Ferrier of fortune, fingers stiff with age, your horses gone to pasture, shave down the ever-diverging day, shape it according to health and desire the songs of your youth are not yet lost to yesterday, they too, have been passed along, translated from string and harmony to verse, plunged into the inkwell, spilled joyfully upon…
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#40
You, desirable according to the nature of unusual things, free from ambition, shake loose the spinning gear the altruistic cannot see, that which lays beyond their best intentions became the foundation of her misery my love, your footprints, a convergence of fate and fortune are your own, unable to be claimed or plundered by another…
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#39
Adolescence, unfolding, lay your fear before the alter, northward, smoke rises from the steer, upon the stones, before the threshold, your self-knowledge, bitter no longer, unfolds, your self-knowledge, unfolding, stumbles into manhood you, waiting beyond the threshold, wait for me, you, knowing only gentleness, come into you
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#38
Brimstone, sunken, seeks out a star, your smile, forced between clenched teeth, belays sorrow beyond the scope of expression or understanding my words, laden down, stick in my windpipe, yours, silent, well up and fall like raindrops on the intersection of Meridian and Linder road we, astride, wander the hedges, we, seeking out a star,…
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#37
Unburdened, The principle of your heart, cloven beneath a willow, behind the paddock, between two loves, a poet and a saint, feet set in opposition as they were before perhaps, soon, they will stumble upon the wellspring of burgeoning self-knowledge, an expression of the soul sustained beyond the bounds of transcorporeality, beyond the limits of…
