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In the quiet of light

You speak to me

And I get lost
in your words

I close my eyes
to touch their meaning

I can still smell
your sweet essence

here next to me
amidst the waning light
of my  empty  room 

a  violent silence
rules the moment

Though my mind
chases you
to places
shadows go to hide

I reach for you

somewhere

your sultry heat
blazing

beneath the pinions
of the mid-August sun

I flinch

from my stark reality

to be once again embraced

by your warm
sunbeam kisses
and butterflies
that dance

upon your soft gentle
breasts of light

But you are reluctant

you become once again
my unthrottled imagination

The things
you once said

no longer belong to me

but seek refuge
within the guarded sanctuary
of  my  hauntingly
distant past



for you belong now
to the cold winter winds

the snowy evenings

the ice-laden ponds
and streams

that I so determinately
discriminate
 
You cling
like a jealous
forlorn lover

to the frigid stare
of a pale wintry moon

you run
with the intrepid abandon
of a child

to the wild coyote

and revel
in his chilled foggy breath
as he empties
his loneliness
to the sky

you are sister

to the stoical resignation
of wood burning stoves

that plume

with an angst

to which  oddly enough

titillates

both joy and pain

into one crescendo

like magic

I can only close my eyes
to touch the meaning

Of losing you

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