Best Adust Poems

Scribal notions these, and oh so sorrowful,
But, despite their seeming poignance they are not additionally puissant, no. 
I have seem them, wrapped in warmed and moist leaves:
No, not the leaves as pages of books, as duodecimos and folios and so forth, no:
I speak of leaves...

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Two flights
Of fancy
No Nancy
Not Drew
He's on the
Other side
Of a picture
You knew


Far away
You forgot
To tell
The well's
Never there
Like a wrong
In a witness
Of a thirst
For a care


No then's
Another day
You will or 
You won't
Then there's
A better part
Of I will
And I don't


So goes
The story
No sorry
I'll say
Just adust 
For a little...

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it rained and it rained, when monsoon embraced the fall,
eager was the Earth, waiting for their sacred union to befall.
she befriends the tender drizzle and also rough gust,
for she knows the void of love, and awaits in adust.

it rained and it rained until lovers emerged...

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