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Vin Ordinaire?


Each night, I consider fire,
the bleak rationing of love.

A purple balloon lifts me above the cumulonimbus
potent with a threat of lightning

and were it to strike, and every tree
flame inextinguishably, the cigarettes

in each coat pocket would also ignite
spontaneously, so perhaps nakedness,

perhaps solving love without clothes,
would lessen the risk, simplify the emotions.

                          *

You are a gentleman of the mist,
you take pain and launch it

above the stratocumulus, and birds,
and the sun would shiver, were it

an orb of flesh and emotion,
were it motionless and sad.

Each molecule of your sight
tumbles from your eyes–

                          *

& language rains down on us
soaks us in vintage champagne.

 



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