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Shaping

By ralph

Mon, 01 Nov 2004
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So the sky's a soup

thunder and rain
dapple the sheets

from the street lights
sepia percussion
stains the window
painting the night
crackling the short wave

pressed thighs
we twist
locking the moment

we are shaped
for this

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