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My
satisfaction comes not from blanket-warm tranquility --
I
hunt for deeper oceans, as fingertips walking a globe
and
tracing the static..
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I
stay here because I can --
a
cat-- camel arched-- on a fence,
too
high for the barking dog to reach
trees
with purple leaves tu..
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![Narrow Margins](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/e0e8e00d99b4e971732a9beb4f60894f.jpg) |
they
rise and fall like the tide bending
as
the lip of a wave-- a mouthwidening --
her
throat opens as she drinks thebreeze before
fal..
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with
one hand, you held the granulated heart
of our beach --
black
like the grit of sand scraped from paper,
or
pulverized coal just ..
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yesterday --
I
met a long haired man
who
painted with his own blood
haunting
portraits, surreal landscapes,
an
old windmill ba..
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when
I revealed to him
that
my love was a primal estuary --
a
pulsing artery
emerging from the nucleus
of creation’s womb..
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beyond
the steady drumbeats
within my skull,
pulling
at my temples like the tide
coaxing
the shore back into her womb,
the
empty ..
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doubt
has taken me --
reached
around my waist
with rough hands,
and
submerged my confidence
like
an unattended buoy,
lost at ..
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Upon
allowing him entrance to the blooming grove
of
her complicated-- over saturated-- psyche,
an
ivy-laced gate was pushed aside-- one t..
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