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a cold day

did the sun visit the cold shores of some daughters shimmering eyelids that held her in such perfect contempt.

 

O, sweet child your arrogance is the flavor of god.

 

(but shall not those fearful minutes

;bleeding from times slashed wrist;

splashing hot seconds over a dusty yellow)

 

that dangerous womb of light

birthed a frigid nothing

as my fingers slip on my buttons

trying to shield my pink

edifice from chastising

breezes briskly beating

a lonely melody

on the loose weave

of times

everflowing

river riven

plait

 

protect thee

thy woolen

encumbrance

is

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patrick-wakefield-1
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May 3, 2010
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