There is much to forgive.
We are ornate
and gothic and damp
with sin and fertile
with loves
and with lies.
Swimming
swooning
our sorrow
our joy
kissing
onward.
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A blog largely focused on my own poetry, with an occasional sampling of poems by other poets and commentary about poetry.
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