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Come for me,
Come, take my hand
I ask you again –
you cough and tense
Your wrack is my wrack
We squirm together
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Come for me,
Come, take my hand
I ask you again –
you cough and tense
Your wrack is my wrack
We squirm together
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Your hair is damp
and your shoulders
I am mother of pearl
in silver setting
Hang me on your ear!
Let me dangle by your neck
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Thank you my love
for the long sext
It encourages me
to be better in all things
the self effaced,
and held in your hands
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In the expectant dark
stage lights beam on
Silhouette clips onto –
hugs her close like a lover
whose red hands cup her
both sides like moons
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A tear curves down a cheek
and falls through a road grate
It falls through the dark
and then – cumulus, moonlight
It falls as rain from a sky –
the sky in the underworld
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Beatrice, centred in heaven,
did not need to be desired
She watched the angel eyes
rotate in a thousand sockets
and waited for Dante
so they could go for a walk
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A book never finishes being read
Il n’y a pas de hors lit
Laying in your breath –
breathing your text
I want you, the page curled over
The bunch of lilies of you
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