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A Dance

As the last gleaming light fades with final grace
from the face of the blood red summer sun
the hiss of teeming Cicada fills the void
the golden globe has left behind

Your powdery smell magically wafts into me
lifts the night with its sullen heat
into my too proud lungs
and perfumes my heavy sighs

I feel you in me so delicately...
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Mercury & Silver

Crashing through tangled limbs so blindly
hot, streaming tears blot out the twilight landscape
torn strips of clothes hang forlornly
snagged on broken branches for evermore
the ghosts inside burn bright torches in his heaving chest
mind full of the silvery bright betrayal
so fresh, so near

In small forgotten fragments
he wanders around his emptiness
his mind's an attic, a wasteland...
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Angel on Fire

It was a dream,
that brought her to me.
An angel?
A demon?
Pray tell who are thee?

She washed through my conscience,
a spectre sublime.
Was she the truth?
Or was it my mind?

Unbidden she whispered,
a tale I will tell,
of beauty and wisdom,
of heaven,
of hell.

She awoke me to visions,
where light played with folds,
and...
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RUSH

Sitting in a twilight silence filled with anxiety,

stones cutting through lightly soiled jeans,

chafing boney backside.

Cold night air bringing promise of sweet release,

jungle beats and animal heat.

Shuffling footsteps cause nape hair to stand erect,

peddler of my small token delights,

approaches carefully in his toothless might,

the gnawing hunger within,

ignited afresh by what I will soon slip in.

In...
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