States of Poetry NSW
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adagio sostenuto. Some part
of me is still delayed
night, with daylight
stars, moths that fumble
that this tract of sky,
like no other, will not yield.
is deeper than it looks.
Each sip I take
with musk is riding you
now on a bed of roses
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those honey-gold locks
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of darkness before dawn by a scent so heavy
on my senses, on the room, that I was convinced
and was loitering
upstairs or in the hallway, or having caught
in the laundry, or sitting
upright and unbreathing
its funnel ardent
its wide hungry eye
Its tongue croons you
onto flatline of prairie
red breath drew
gravity into your limbs:
you yearned for tall ...