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Fair

and naked in the rain

... the least I could do.

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Yielding mind
yielding heart
... yielding earth.

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They's plenty tellin' me

this ain't that ain't this

... well, it's somethin'

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She laughs and says

lovers are made to part

... some baby, some.

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No meanings
no intentions
... petals in the wind.

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Heart true enough
to lay upon the tips
... of grasses.

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Words light enough
to ride upon the wings
... of dragonflies.

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Garments of pretense
taken from corpses
... given to corpses.

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Things untrue:
sometimes you
... sometimes me.

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Things transparent:
fawns playing in a meadow
... sated lovers sleeping.

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A list
of true things:
... things with limits.

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A list
of things not yet:
... things that are common.

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Retiring from chatter
to the caresses
of moment.

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Taking tender care
to feel with every toe
of every step.

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A clock
pecking, chipping, counting
nothing of moment.

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A tiny rain
penny delights and prizes -
a day in little peaces.

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Miracle of a lover's graces -
the grace of they
who see only miracles.

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Tender enough heart
to wander a dream of sepia woods
without cause or pocket.

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Once-a-life poem
slain in the telling -
a gem brighter still in death.

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Veil or flesh -
not a dragonfly's name
... the dragonfly.

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