Love in Seventeen Syllables.


from the ABC set Lovers, Liars and Just Good Friends.

Love burns like newsprint:
fast, hot and leaving blackened
phrases in the wind.

Three points connected
preclude a binary choice:
there are no switches.

Rolling with the waves,
down counterpoints up: we
stay near the lifebelts.

Shelley's souls meet in
our kisses, our lips encoding
still secret wishes.

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