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Anaconda Heart

Anaconda heart entranced By tight embraces, quickened glance Called to midnight by the sound of Drifters in the moonlight pond Enter into my domain where Frozen sheets of lightning rain Grow up from the ground of prickled pain Hardly cause for concern I'm the invisible link to you Just enough of nothing to prove Kiss of constriction, heart on the move Love like a losing battle Mist of mountains blind our eyes Nameless birds grow wings and fly Olive branches, claws delights Presented in the heat of passion Quick to loosen the years which bind Rest in limbo with a blood vessel mind Snap the branch and I'll quickly descend To the ground where starvation reigns Under the cover of the slate washed moon Valiant apologies slip through the room Water for drowning or learning to swim X-rays of novelty's thin, fractured limbs Yellow in belly and tight in the chest Zealous in love and in war...

Copyright © | Year Posted 2005




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