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Dark Poetry #4

Arrangement (Revised)

JenniferMaxwell

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since 2006-09-14

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0 posted 2007-09-22 01:16 PM

They loved Mahler, Vaughn Williams,
the Kotzschmar, read
Leaves of Grass to the wind
on Bigelow mountain,
sunned on Long Island's deserted beach
and named the stars
for each other
on the last ferry home.

They captured their world
in photographs -
wildflowers, seascapes,
and winter's inevitable surrender,
climbed Katahdin
to a surreal, untouchable universe,
until the first snowfall.

Forty years they lived
in a garret under eaves
of hemlock and elm,
where mountain winds
that cradled their words swept down
in billows soft as first snowfall,
or the touch of a lover's hand,
and brushed away whispers
condemning the love of a man
for another.

(for C in memory of E)

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