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SUNDAY PRAYER, ccii
time & time again
i will catch you when you let go
as the carousel goes round and round
the playground & the faces
of the other children melt and blur
the snow inside me fell for her
my death pleasure-cruising her death
a blur of darkness i circle her
like a shark
wretched hips and bedside lamps
stone deaf i dance like waves
bleaching against the reefs of age
not speaking, not even breathing
not even our hearts were beating
time & time again
we raked fruit off of the ground
to lay our futile bodies down
i am, 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 - del mar, california, u.s.a.