Desire'

Your hair
your mouth this light your hands

These gems an emblem this lace stretched like fire

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and gray as the sky

 

How I invent you as the tide surges on the sand

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against the horizon

Anonymous as the wind your grace a whisper

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Taste your lips like starfruit, crisp and sweet and
tangy with salt

Lingering like a touch, my fingers brushing your face

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distance and the night gathers itself

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the blue screen you project

In the shape of our invented bodies

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this imagined world

 

Like an iron bracelet a broken map the wet sand
clinging

In an
ecstasy of horizons a room filled with distance this shape

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intricate so lost so filled and spinning

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class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">In its taut circuit of
wanting, the simple purity of it

As a typeface gleams in the white stone what it
asks

A savage
rigor the white feathers drifting this grace this touch

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Swirled in the mist of its keeping O this secret

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net cast like threads the marks

Scattered like tattoos across pale skin, your eyes

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Dripping like wet stones into a cistern, this night and
its meaning

Fragile and trembling at the edge of the abyss

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the core of each word we speak