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You sat at the restaurant table; Your eyes rested on the bubbling h… Gazing at the distant waves, and s… beyond the lighthouse at the head, As a painter would paint you,
Thou, so happy nymph, My fulsome pounding heart, Waited on the stone folly! Through the arboreal arch. Married with moss and ivy
Within you Cosmic queen, Angel of purifying grace, I see the innocence, playful creation,
Salty pools of mint tepidity lick my ankles, and cleanse my toe… The tide subsides, and leaves behi… The silver sided friends Flapping wildly beneath lush canop…
We, all of us, huddled, griping fi… in the halls of caverns and caves, waiting for the surge of the onrushing tide that would c… Those inner chambers, and blast us…
Listen thyself, not to the birdson… To the tick of the clock, to the s… For that will cast only the shape… And your desire will fill the moul… Look not at color and shape,
For soon, I shall die, And there shall be nothing between… But the vast emptiness, Which I will inhabit like an echo… The boundless void,
Man, I feel your pain. I know how the heart can burn, and How the fires can rage I hope you weather it well, and
Rose—petal paint flaking, On a small iron wrought gate, In a length of wall. But for creepers, And crawlers and
Shudder in the cold air, the end of the autumn. I know each season like a son or d… lashing out against me, or cuddling and warming me,
An image, a ghost An impression at most. Morning light creeps through the s… Fingers in hair, goodbyes and hall… Muses, abuses, sings for dinner
Smiling, a shoulder trimmed by gea… Frayed jeans hems, ferry deck soaked from toes to shins. You first pervaded essence.
You left during the unprecedented… The new grass in its first season… blew in the gentle breezes outside… You were quiet when I visited you… Your eyes bore through the will of…
Lest you walk through her streets, and feel the granite at your shoul… taste the stone of old bridges Bow waves at her supports Surging torrents of energy through…
Mercy and truth have met together.… Man, in his weakness and shortsigh… He trembles at the risks he takes.… There comes a time when our eyes a… We need only await it with confide…