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(This a new Version created using many editing suggestions from Linda:) 

I picked you up
like a “shiny” newly minted copper penny 
it was your kitten fur voice 
O how you would hate that...
the avocado texture of it
with which 
no matter what wild wicked hour I would call you

you would answer

You shimmered like sunlight
on the forest floor of my needles of neediness
glinted off the shiny chrome and twilight blinders of my 
“made to order” searcher’s soul
You were the perfect portent
with your torrents of torment
to wash clean my jet and emerald caves 

Or was it you who found me? 

a white gem 
silent, hidden behind my poetry 
sitting in a seat in that Inn
listening to the hues of blues
stenciling the deep red shards of my heart 
onto the unlined pages 
of a blank black journal

I wore cool light blue and soft sheet cotton
like a cloud-kissed sky
I was light as air and as deep as “a thousand leagues under the sea”
You became my heroic touchstone,
my one true thing sapphire-sparked rock of glory

I hung you around my neck
oxen yoked myself  with the weight of you
I hung myself 
faithfully -to “my cross to bear” 

your endless denial of our love.

You were lithe…thin as a straw… tall as a poplar
white as ash and grey as coal 
except for the orange hot fire in the center ring
....of your cigarette

I mistook it for the flames of our unearthly love

It was just the firmament of your eternal coolness reflecting back 
the stars of my own piercing need

Yoked by my own wanton weave … I drove on blindly 
mind spider webbed 
the ghost of your emotion-less carcass draped around my neck 
“Leave no man behind”

I know you laughed and told them
that it was just a fire pit left in a cave  
by the Queens of the Stone Age -Some loud, angry band you loved 
Less real to you 
by far more ethereal and ever lost in time to me
 
than the new found “writing on the wall”
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