Bellisima! ****
descending on the table, a crash,
a severance, a banquet.
the linen is white
aflame,
a pond of light underneath
sorry elbows and frantic
fingers (thump!
thump!
thump!)
a dry *** of inquiries
engraved in heady crepusculario.
twilight's fingers chiming
my heart - lute, mine strings
outstretched to breaking (a tremendous pang!)
but the sound it makes
is a coveted amaranth.
dark outwrestling
dark.
in front stretches a
white river of wine - we will not last until light seeks its
calm home
but we will stay.
we will remain tasting the brine of what immense sea,
licking the salt off of the
sweetness,
gnawing, falling off the
curbed bone,
this p
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