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The sky is fitted linen, stretched over sealine without a crease, pegged to the spikes and jags of mountains, kingsize, navy, preparing to be sunshot, sooner than lovers can hide, no sooner than the taste of stars striking your lips, one by one stunned and falling to light.
It's all been said and yet, need, blowing between our lips, streams inside a tree. We flowed out of time and back so soon eating eggs our own. Through each other we pass like water.
At the sun to see how it never changes, at the moon to see how it does, algae slipping beneath our feet, roots travelling and dewdrops dying in visible speed. There is no such thing as a circular river.
Unlike bread, the body becomes softer with age. We tag our children with our names, store the plaits of our daughters, stash berries under rocks and look for them later.
Held in the fangs of a wristwatch, a well-worn path of a nail in our veins, heart-hammered time trail.
No matter who two are kissing, eternity arrives, jelly bean eyes black crystal balls. The longer we look, the more we recognize and anything we could say is too obvious. The songs we like are the songs we know, and every song on the radio is about us.
2.
War is a place all thoughts have left, green salad fields sprinkled with blood and bone, birds crash when wind caves in, the cigarette drops from your hands as you water plants with gasoline, mountains wait on the bodies of reptiles, snakes run from burning skins, the ground hangs on to trees as boats to sails.
Then nipples get hot as craters, beards are stroked, eyebrows pinched, faces taken off, eyes recruited by cameras, decades of time stolen from bee pollen and clover harvests returned to the apiaries.
You know a language well if it does things you don’t have control over. Bring me the words without meanings, words all meanings have abandoned, sentenced to meaninglessness.
Fortunetellers smile in magazine columns. A mystery hero steals the fantasies of people he likes the look of.
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Our lips close in a precise .
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On the telephone, brief _________
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