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What Purple Back Lit Song Is This

What purple back- lit song is this? What Larkin Swift upon the white tossed cloud and light? What yellow dawn awash in corn sweetness? ………………….. are your lips upon mine And still I turn away ….more human than human The softest glow of silvered night is quick within The dampness of dewed forest dirt wafts and wanders in my nostrils caresses my cheeks and crystal-ed light …the ever crystal light that falls for the “only” me from the gray heather-ed sky between trees and lifting…lilting leaves ....greener than it is possible for them to be Over and over ………………….to pick oneself up after ALL the falls Pain of body, bone and the everlasting melancholy Our bones…my bones…the bones of it A cavern of shell… structure of dust…gift of God…searing wonder of one’s own to have to leave on a journey so unknowable it merges moments …….in our flaxen seas single seconds evolve into massive planets with Quazarian landscapes Gladiator galaxies swirling in Titan Universes Implode again becoming a single blooming fuchsia flower …in which we are inexplicably, acutely, astoundingly alive and alone again in our singular perfection

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