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The Draper's Cloth

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I imagine stars at the dragon's tail,         eyelids ringing with butter.         I want to brush palms as         lightly as two sparks.         take the wand of your waist         in two plush hands         with the pitiless gesture         of a sparrow         We part the leaves in breath,         arouse trees in envy.         I sense colours more vivid         than your tongue         after wine,         explosions to cap the wind.         To enter you in argument -         a bough creeking in underbrush,         svelte panthers hiding.         And afterwards, sheets are open galleys,         oarsmen ploughing breakers         across both sea and night.

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