autumn came yesterday,
golden dress cloaked.
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rose song
Sweet flower,
make diamonds of
how yearning cools
on waiting lips.
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let's dig holes through
the days that wait
for us, nest love there
out of time.
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you wait for joy like
the moon's gray spots
to fill; galaxies overflow and
spill, child, blossomed
from that dust.
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where the river changes
I knew you,
River, you were
a kinder thing -
what sunless wild tore
your tongue into
this spitting froth -
knotted with your heart,
what swallowed stone
made home now
grates to frantic grit
the song that
held me
gently once?
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