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To Lee Harvey Oswald, My Lover

Fire
Flames – destroying everything –
Flames – I felt their heat –
The whirling world – it cannot stand—
In fevered circuit melts.

Those flames traverse
Throughout my bones,
Rage, hot, across my nerves,
Consuming all the stars I see
In heaven’s stretched-out canopy.

Fire – burning in my soul –
Fire – I felt...

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Categories: oswald, history, introspection, lost love,
Form: Rhyme

The Day I Met Oswald Berkley

From afternoon siesta nap
        with clear focus of mind
 in holey torn vest a barefoot child leapt -
   out bed and door and gate 
           a...

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Categories: oswald, adventure, childhood,
Form: Rhyme