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Paint Me Ablaze / Lali Tsipi Michaeli

Paint Me Ablaze paint me ablaze like Rome start from the head eyeballs mouth nose castle hills via neck harnessed dusty roads long hands fingers of books waist stomach kingdom of sorrow all the king's seats streams of the fields and valleys of love my thighs and knees will slowly burn for a sign of my future shame paint a birth mark my calves that are trained to go stright ahead til the ankles convents feet toes the king's army like an air my name will burn my meaning will be strewn from my ashes any sense from my tendons will be free translated from Hebrew: Michael Simkin

Copyright © | Year Posted 2010




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Date: 9/12/2010 1:45:00 PM
Did you translate this one yourself?, thanks for sharing this write..P.D.
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Date: 9/12/2010 1:12:00 PM
Damn. I'm making marking you a favorite poet.
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