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Try and try again

So the woman with worry will drink more,

she is young like you-

watch as I spill colour into her face

by kissing her mouth gently,

I swallow her worries

 

We'll embrace because desire persists,

we're foolish women

who keep trying to thread marble with a needle-

moving in slow long rhythms

we keep trying,

to perfect our dance of yesterday and the day before

and each time the rhythm seems to improve

becoming a whole new spiral of music

with notes that we've never heard before

consistently longing more

 

again and again I see, we've been sewing stone

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allison-knowles
Canadian
Published
Apr 21, 2012
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