Love, Memory, and Kinship

Love, touch, remembrance, aging, family feeling, passing time, and intimate address.

Touched by An AngelWe, unaccustomed to courage / exiles from delight / live coiled in shells of loneliness / until love

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RefusalBeloved, / In what other lives or lands / Have I known your lips / Your Hands / Your Laughter brave

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RemembranceYour hands easy / weight, teasing the bees / hived in my hair, your smile at the / slope of my cheek

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Passing TimeYour skin like dawn / Mine like musk / One paints the beginning / of a certain end. / The other, the

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When You ComeWhen you come to me, unbidden, / Beckoning me / To long-ago rooms, / Where memories lie. / Offering

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MenWhen I was young, I used to / Watch behind the curtains / As men walked up and down the street. Wino

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Old Folks laughThey have spent their / content of simpering, / holding their lips this / and that way, winding / th

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AloneLying, thinking / Last night / How to find my soul a home / Where water is not thirsty / And bread l

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End of Love, Memory, and Kinship

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