Long Nostrums Poems

In a white realm, where optimism drifts away.
Frescoed moonbeams on walls, in swirling array.
Such silky cream and vanilla, delicately sifting.
As the full moon lingers, its light briskly heaving. 

Languid souls quest elixirs in ewers that...

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The stagecoach is loaded and the driver is rarin' to go,
To start that long, rugged trek to the town of San Francisco!
People are crammed inside and half a dozen on the roof.
The horses are snortin'...

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There goes the question man.  
See how he walks?
Deliberate, and not like others
...not at all.
His lust, unlike our own,
is for the shadows right and sinister;
they play a different melody
for him.  They seem
to sing...

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A summer flood upon the desert,
rolling the arroyos
like a nostrum for the seeds
that cling in desperation
to that long forgotten ghost life
that the animals once knew,
and know once more
until  the filtering sand grows brutal
in its...

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