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Don_Juan
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Far from where I am going

0 posted 2010-03-30 12:06 PM


Youth

1.

Fists pressed against placid glass
shatter in an outward ripple

a single strand of silk
dances freely along the dusk sky
rising and falling in harmony
with the winds respiration,
comes to rest
among rotting leaves

next to glinting glass

2.

A branch breaks overhead
and scrapes against
the aluminum siding--

we call it a song

3.

Eyes half shut
glazed with alcohol smiling

make a man deeply aware
of his breath
allow him to for the first time
feel the warmth of his blood

speak something of soul mates

speak nonsense

and deceive

4.

Lovers lie to one another
in the dark

worlds pass away in the silence
between their breath

lips meet in secret
and destroy a man.

5.

Autumn skies
become dark
gray snow slips into the air
strangers pass silently oblivious
and down the street
an animal, crushed by
a speeding vehicle

circumvents
the streaming
meltwater.


I've been gone for so long and quite glad to be back among these boards of blue, that is, if you'll have me.

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nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200
Between the Lines
1 posted 2010-03-30 06:04 PM


lips meet in secret
and destroy a man.


and sometimes a woman~~

M

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