if you kiss a statue in the dark,does
it leave a mark?like the moonlight's
cold stain on pale columns of necks and
thinner bones of knuckles,or like the
heavy-handed cracks on thighs and
mine own,leaking gold to match._it's
easy to admit a mistake in the dark_ is
what you say,but marble lips leave
little space for contrition.there's irony
in that,in rennaisance-made lovers who
screamed for dominions and settled in
ash instead.history is adjusted,and the
cycle continues.but they left their jaws
open,and the light is pouring out.
Oct 22, 2018
Oct 22, 2018 at 3:45 PM UTC
if you kiss a statue in the dark,does
it leave a mark?like the moonlight's
cold stain on pale columns of necks and
thinner bones of knuckles,or like the
heavy-handed cracks on thighs and
mine own,leaking gold to match._it's
easy to admit a mistake in the dark_ is
what you say,but marble lips leave
little space for contrition.there's irony
in that,in rennaisance-made lovers who
screamed for dominions and settled in
ash instead.history is adjusted,and the
cycle continues.but they left their jaws
open,and the light is pouring out.
the secrets that statues never tell us
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