75 11 9
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103 2 2
|
The touch of my wife’s skin
is like a living electric fence,
not the kind that shocks or burns you,
but makes me feel alive again.
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859 1 1
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I move, press my mouth to her ribs and trace
a line between her breasts with one, sticky
fingertip.
She
closes
deep
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1249 6 7
|
Just take the mountain curves
as tightly to the inside and
as fast as surface conditions permit
and the road’s edge
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102 7 6
|
No one has ever hurt a woman who is swinging a hammer and singing.
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1286 15 12
|
Soon enough, October’s ragged/
lawn will hide its deficiencies//
under withered leaves of oak,
|
86 2 2
|
I’ve been on the other
side of the hill.
|
33 1 2
|
Steaming with sap and greaseproof poly
|
67 5 3
|
Plumped ivory, blushing fingertips jeweled with beach grains
|
938 0 1
|
Headsets screaming with suburban boredom
|
1045 10 11
|
|
1298 9 5
|
as distant lights
all must shiver
before joining in
a Milky Way river
|
67 3 3
|
You are now leaving Czech soil
You were there for a thousand years
That is where you met her once,
your great love, and now again
after all these years
You are now leaving Czech soil
You were there for a thousand years
Forget all your toil
|
64 2 2
|
But occasionally ants can be found
crawling across the top of the sun,
causing a feeling sensation
on the bottom of the moon.
|
89 4 3
|
Curses, at the beginning of time,
had no meaning. Now they do,
because you keep squeezing
the last strings of remorse
out of the human fiddle.
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