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Friday 15 March 2013

Stem Sperm

Would you laugh with me 
Would your laugh be against me
Could you laugh
As the midnight red light turns me to a tremble
As the spirits of the night in the shadows reassemble

Should I care
That the words are no more
Than a broken lovers token

In the glare of the bare night
Poetry is written, unspoken
The fare that I paid

Is returned to the sender
Left there unopened
The ridge of peace

Is only for the riders
Who go by, so still
So quietly awoken

Would your body settle with me
Would your body wrestle against me
Could your body thrash
As the indignant right rails me to ruefully disassemble
As the spirit of flight calculates & separately does tremble


From the Collection One Crow to a Tree - Love in Separate Houses available from Lulu