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Poem in the Morning Air


A joy starved of breath will die malnourished:
cherish the moment, for as Goethe said,
they are desperately rare.

                                      Vault to
the sky, leave the deserts we
sleepwalk through, quietly
become an astronaut clutching history–
rejoice at its stain,

for tomorrow greets us coolly, should we let it.

                                   *

The rarefied air restores a virginity,
not by some puzzle of ozone, rather
from a clasp of the divine
greeting one ever so lightly. Shuffle

months like cards, and if nine
of hearts, trump it with the queen
of spades that fell anaemic from the deck,
and drowned in your hand. Death, dear
one, is a deal done, change

the DVD, fly until the impossible claims you.

 



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