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How Luminous

how luminous, how pretty thou lies 

how blurry i see thee with dry eyes

how an ecstacy from a ray of thou shines 

so bright it blinds me from mine cries


how dark, how dim thy be 

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Exhibit: Self As Knife

I peeled back my face

with museum lighting—

pinned each expression

like a rare moth:

grief with violet wings,

lust still twitching.

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Track

Hello, my friend. Don't be silent - write.

When you shouldn't even - take it, listen.

I'm afraid you've forgotten all our conversations,

And I'm afraid there is no human left in you.

I wait and remain silent, like an elephant on the balcony,

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As imperceptibly as grief

As imperceptibly as grief

  The summer lapsed away, —

  Too imperceptible, at last,

  To seem like perfidy.

  A quietness distilled,

  As twilight long begun,

  Or Nature, spending with herself

  Sequestered afternoon.

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Further Instructions

Come, my songs, let us express our baser passions.

Let us express our envy for the man with a steady job and no worry about the future.

You are very idle, my songs,

I fear you will come to a bad end.

You stand about the streets, You loiter at the corners and bus-stops,

You do next to nothing at all.

You do not even express our inner nobilitys,

You will come to a very bad end.

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The Dream Fairy

A little fairy comes at night,

Her eyes are blue, her hair is brown’

with silver spots upon her wings,

And from the moon she flutters down.

She has a little silver wand,

And when a good child goes to bed

She waves her wand from right to left

And makes a circle round her head,

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