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Sideway Look

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It's snowing and all I can think of         are leaves to wrap your memory,         leaves pungent as tea,         green curls alive         with the promise of fire,         shutes like fingers         to play a tap on your skin.         The snow is wet like your eyes at parting,         cold as the promise of a winter dawn         wet again as city-streets         I must tread to make a living,         the flask of wine         pressed to my lips.         On the winter landscape all         I see is the ghost white of sheets,         our sheets wrapped to keep breath warm         the log cannisters of our bed         a heady raft upon which to travel         to burn up an ocean of delight.

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