Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Hot Valentine

Terrified as a spider
must be to sit down
quietly addled
beside me
my parachute
having broken his
paraclete having
spoken is there
a bird or dragon
eats spiders
eats men
we call that
summertime
so hot we can’t
even bear
to call it
sunnertime
its real name
anymore.

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