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Subject: Re: Four essentially unrelated works

Author:
Golden

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Date Posted: 11:48:48 08/10/01 Fri
Author Host/IP: 56K-107.MaxTNT6.pdq.net/216.88.65.107
In reply to: William James Blackford 's message, "Four essentially unrelated works" on 20:05:40 08/07/01 Tue

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In other words I miss you..... Do you?

>Moon cradled in stars
>My arms of darkness and distant suns
>held rapt by your brightness
>A meteor dies in the atmosphere
>My unseen tear landing atop your head
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> Echoes
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>Love's breath tends embers
>into a cycle of re-fading
>while I am torn at the neck,
>a disgarded and bloodless doll
>Vulnerability sharpens my mirror
>pretending to veil your mosaic;
>but bittersweet chains trudge your
>burning wreck through my
>stomach, chest then throat
>toward openings where water trickles
>into a landfill awaiting your carcass
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>III.
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>Pre-natal
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>Frigid winds enliven us
>while on blue sky we stand free
>I reach into your soul,
>my hand swallowed to the wrist,
>unlatching your window
>into another blue distance
>There it seemed Noah chose these humans
>One of each gender from all races; nude underneath
>their covering of fluttering Monarch butterflies
>Each nutured into a long jumper's pursuit;
>up and over in half-hurled gossamer strung landings,
>and off again, semi-puppets on countless wings
>They celebrate today's release,
>their masters accompaning them to cloud's edge
>where their own wings will unfurl, each plummet slowing
>into its womb, soon a newborn's cry of life
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>IV.
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>Ground zero
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>I am under Death's cloak the moment he sips;
>cataract orbs of flesh peer from my ethereal
>Back on Earth my eyeless frame
>lays ungainly as if strewn
>Naught to tell of its anguished steps before falling
>to stare unseeing towards gray sky
>A burn radius windowed through me,
>clothing still dancing with tiny flames,
>blood rivulets down a sidewalk floor
>Myocardial shrapnel having obliterated
>the bookstore window as it burst from my chest,
>lies about in beating afterglow
>In other words....I miss you

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