Absence

Little girl, sat by her mother

Sips ice cream soda

Through a straw

Today her father

Is elsewhere

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Mirrors & Bars

Beautiful people

City central vacation

Hair stylists, and beauty parlours

Food routines; for bodies

And soul brothers

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Plums à la tomate

Generation through generation

A spotted dress

Drinks from my coffee cup

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Recovery

Sit, settle; take a while to relax

Embroiled, so to speak

A cacophony of human voices

To still the aches

Of this one more human

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Rich

Lightless windows

At the end of the day

A strength of blue

Purpose made

For lovers at play

Play on the waterfront

Play in the drinkers bar

Play at the all-night discotheque

Before the moonlight arrives

With the morning star

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Curvature & Recoil

Hand placed

Softly upon your bare shoulder

Fingers that stroke breathless along your blade

Palms that ease to cup your firm bosom

A mind that plays awhile with yesteryear

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I stare over my coffee cup

Take care not to mix you up

With some other me

I share your arm movement

Bare skin of singular intent

Meant for all to see

There is little now that stirs

I defer to my memory

Despair that she is not meant to be

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