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Homonyms Explicated


by Ed Higgins


right/rite:

Your touch smooth as impulse/

Swaying my mind

 

soul/sole:

The sky applauding sky/

Only your smile's affection

 

hear/here:

Feast of beating, our hearts/

Your tongue slips off mine

 

dye/die:

Skin rendered to flush/

Taking us into steep ravines

 

heroin/heroine

Bees drunk on honey/

We are wings of flight

 

its/it's:

Possessive touch/

Love's torn membrane

 

pray/prey:

Vertical dependences/

Claws defending hope

 

scene/seen:

Delicate dawn on rising/

You attending all morning

 

sometimes/some times:

Only you bind my senses/

Event, duration, sine wave

 

taut/taught:

Swirling words,/

Undertows, kelp waving

 

road/rode:

Traveling this present/

Everyone's frail journey

 

lesson/lessen:

Falling into love/

The heart as trapdoor

 

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