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Isles And Rivulets

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On your brow, the steppes of Asia     are fetched by deep set eyes     A colouring distict with mystery     perceives the Polos greeting the Great Khan,     the golden isle of Ciphangu, the sultry east.     I revel in the mystery     of my warm, wet flower.     A pollen bee laden with honey     squirms, embraces with me,     in the abrupt opening of our jar,     serrated edge of the known world.     The air, buoyed and elastic with pleasure, belongs to me.     Tawny, pale rose, your oriental skin     peels back     the tiny veils separating our cultures.     I peer in to find Confucian     lilac, towers of silence,     opal pheasants.     Harmony strains all dogmas.     Rain darts penetrate the gathering pools.     The tiny plastic cup     my life,     inseparable from your hand.

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