Face

2006

It once was there and now it seems

A smile that haunts the very shadow of my space.

 

A coy and roguish cleaver thing,

Its crescent moon an epitaph beneath my dreaded shades.

 

There it reads,

Behind a rustic fence of septic thoughts

And spacious silhouetting dreams:

 

Toll upon you day and dark.

I stretch my lips to break the heart

And blunder that which holds together,

An evening, an island

A screen door, a feather.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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