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Subject: Four essentially unrelated works

Author:
William James Blackford

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Date Posted: 20:05:40 08/07/01 Tue
Author Host/IP: adsl-63-169-72.asm.bellsouth.net/208.63.169.72

I.

Held

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

II.

Echoes

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

III.

Pre-natal

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

IV.

Ground zero

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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Re: Four essentially unrelated works	TRJ	11:42:10 08/10/01 Fri

Re: Four essentially unrelated works	Golden	11:48:48 08/10/01 Fri