the saint

This is not the novel gait of an insomniac, 
Pupils sealed, a promise of a promiseless
Tomorrow, lips pressed down with downy kisses. 

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Theatre

We have stumbled over minutes of a minute of amour
An afternoon of hazelnuts and coffee and velour
In bathrobes lilac, pink, and black, and then azure.

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a melody

Those passions are but steady and upright.
Sanguine laughter flees towards the pitfalls of tomorrow. 
Fingering a discordant voice that cannot but

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Abomination

To think I thought this thing a thing to last
An engagement in a petty fling no more
Entities flung far and wide within some folly foolery

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Oscillations

To think I thought this thing a thing to last
An engagement in a petty fling no more
Entities flung far and wide within some folly foolery

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Tereus Is Dead

How can the pithy noble face anointed thus  
Be subject unto deep and weary presages—
Some blind compassion, another rude forsaking, 

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unchange

Vindications wild,
A melody she saw bursting through the trees,
Verdant sonnets of a springtime’s cheap caress. 

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sleep

Is it an angry’s minor key …
Pent-up balances and sudden trysts,
Combustion, playing down the hall, 

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Never

Never another day another month another year. 
Constant in beginning ending capsule of profanity, 
Promiscuous the way you sound, pernicious gait,

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curvamen

She always used to love the outpour of hydrangeas in the spring. 
Lucille — she’s just another name, desire apprehended as the spark — 
Another chaste beginning falls into a fluke. 

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Das Gift

He simply thought that it would be more meaningful to think a certain way, 
To challenge thoughts, rebellions, repercussions, his reactionary days, 
A world quite unlike another where monogamy falls dead, heaping perils, 

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faces

In controversial places pull apart my soul
sobriety
In elevated spaces tango through the hole

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Luisa's Afternoon

In the morning she descends the steps, azure bowtie in her hair
Swinging wildly in the early summer’s wind, a collection of curled chestnut locks, 
Lashes batting as she spots my figure lean across the platform, waiting there

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