This still-born life

Filed under: Poetry — Artflux at 2:50 pm on Saturday, September 1, 2007

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Untitled 91-98, watercolor on paper

This still—born life
dream compote flecked
with occasional pits +
genes of despair
your intaglio image etched
too deep to bleach
taste of amaranthine
mourning at
heart’s trap-door
suck in the desert
breathe out water
spit magma
melt into cypher

12/14/99

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