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Wonder
At your own defenses
Open the hips
And keep the lips sealed
Jaundice
Lives alone tonight
Drunk
On tones of running water
 Mar 2019 Dana
Crow
Semblance
 Mar 2019 Dana
Crow
we do not write poetry
we write mirrors
which are held up
to curious faces
who read
looking for their
own reflections
 Mar 2019 Dana
Bryan Dahl
Her Name
 Mar 2019 Dana
Bryan Dahl
Her name,
passing over your lips
like the cosmonaut's smile
at first sight of the Earth.

Since birth, she has been
swimming the stars, but still
never goes beyond dipping her toes
when the shoreline hisses withdraw.

As her earth gives
my sea his home, I wonder-

Would she let me
take her hand, gently,
walk her out a bit deeper.

Would she hold me, fiercely,
lift up from the wet sand,
her bare feet, trust the sea, trusting me.

While earth, sea, and stars all hold each other dearly,
however distant they may be,
Her deepest fears all devoured
by a pack of wild ladybugs.

— The End —