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SUNDAY PRAYER, clxxxiii
time & time again
the sky as white as paper birds
indifferent drops of ink. i am tired
of thinking. about you. about everything.
should i pour water on the fire
until it dies?
and becomes a long gray wedding dress
stretching up relieved
into the sky
i am tired of pain.
i am tired of my mind games.
the lion in me is tamed by you
time & time again,
make me a happy man. cry into my hand.
until we die. stretching up relieved
of all the emptiness of words.
into a sky as white as paper birds.
i am
but you're a birthday,
deep with the dayshine
from dusk to moonbreak,
the dust of keepsakes
time & time again, i am i am
das - maquoketa, iowa, u.s.a.