67 – As usual —

Heaped sweets and a treasure
For a new sin to play with,

This is not love: we cannot call it love.
Love would make me aware of infinite things,

And through the narrow fastnesses of pain.

You are not she I loved. You cannot be

You cold woman, you stranger with her ways,
Smiling cruelly,

I cannot find music
On the tongues of men and women
Unless I hear their voices
Like echoes, silence-softened.
Their many words mean little.
Their mouths are blatant sparrows. GIDLOW

In the thin green moonlight.

Postcommodity: Some Reach While Others Clap

a place with war in its skyline; at its center sits a garden

IN A DREAM YOU CLIMB THE STAIRS

Here—said the Year—

DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.

fire danger high today

False eyelash stuck to the side of the windowsill like a prayer.

You know I thought this last night, perhaps in the shower

As usual, Death sweetly slips her arm in mine—

THANK YOU WORLD, YOU NOW LOOK A LITTLE BIT LIKE A WONDERLAND

(WHERE YOU LOVE ME BEGINS THE FOREST)

A FRIEND FROM THE DISTANT
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