ChrisSaitta
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Rome Sets on the Sun
Rome has set on the sun,
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Spreads the rays of its streets
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And the warmth of its torches.
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Caesar
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Seduction by Many Roads
Love is a thousand women who fail to amount to one,
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Peasant seductress with bared shoulders of red
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Summer War of Youth
Brother, our young summers held us in a long chain like the phalanx of bronzed soldiers forward flun
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Babel Sighs in Ruin
A sigh is a barebacked rider, soundless along a sandy coast,
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A candle tipped with starlight, wheel
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Waters of Rebirth
Venezia, its musical key of brick and shade
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And the canals in rejoining polyphony
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Sweeten the do
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Here Be Dragons
I failed to love round, but fallen flat,
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My head slumps down, over an ancient map,
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My eyes roll
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Autumn is a Greek Sea
Autumn is a Greek sea,
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A summation of wet leaves,
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Gathered wicks of sunset,
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A hypocaust of war
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The Dragon of Snow and Starlight
In our love for the wind and all that passes,
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Each smote of self, a wisp of loss and absence,
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Li
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The Coldest Sea
Light has shone, light as death,
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Sunset is gathered in fishing nets,
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Like a twine of leafy stems
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Autumn Comes Reaping
Thrums the bee waggle-dance in a haunt of Indian horsepaths,
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Or the shaking leaf one second past t
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