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Bodies of Water and Bodies under stone

I always encounter different versions of you here

By bodies of water and bodies under stone

I’m trying to figure the symbology

The motion of life and that of no motion

Perhaps its the prominent eternity in both

Tears have been borne forth by the banks of both.

Amid the tombstones and tangleweed, and alongside sand dunes and the reed.

Cries of joy also have erupted from our throats

We were wild horses along the sea’s shore

and giggles at other times creeped out our bellies

Sneaking secret embraces in such haunted places

Strange, how we dishonor the revered silence expected here.

Eerie, how recurrent all this is.

Time and again we are back by these bodies of water and bodies under stone. I’m sure you can twirl our two bodies and make them into one,

hearts and bones don’t easily come undone

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Nov 15, 2011
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