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The window to my left

Watch me now.

I am the hope in your soul and

my feathers are falling.

 

My claws are dulling on this branch's bolts

and nuts that loosen under the rusting wood.

I see you through your window prism glass

but your tears don't fall as down as gravity should.

 

Gravity. Gravity. Gravity.

You see me dance to the waltz of

the apples all falling.

 

A hammer curls among your right fingers

and heading to your left. You look for me

on the ground and softer branches of fir,

but you've known I'm here in this iron tree.

 

Melt it down now.

I'd fly away and leave

the tree to its falling.

 

Your bones are breaking and I am shaking

so I cannot come and would not sweep you

beneath my mother's cotton down wings,

for you have dulled my claws and still your fingers diffuse

 

to the sound of the

 

Windows now fogging.

So we scream as

the light is still falling.

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elizabeth-1
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Jan 29, 2012
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