Mar 2015
What can I say?
Already, there are
Flying lanterns,
Falling stars,
Fireflies and all
Incendiaries
In her eyes,
What can I say,
Or cannot love?
Or what movement of breath,
Of mouth,
Can go against
The movement
Of the lips?*
© 2015 J.S.P.
Already, there are
Flying lanterns,
Falling stars,
Fireflies and all
Incendiaries
In her eyes,
What can I say,
Or cannot love?
Or what movement of breath,
Of mouth,
Can go against
The movement
Of the lips?*
© 2015 J.S.P.
Draft.
("The Pearl of the Orient")
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