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FOR THE WARMER OF HEARTS
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JOURNAL #22 save for me
but a mad moment
to know you
better
in a clean crisp light
unadorned
your thoughts are but
a work in progress
quite soundless though
are they in your fractured presence
as is this new realm of such flurried
acquaintance ship
you openly seek me out
a welcomed distraction
perhaps
I am keenly captured
in this carefully constructed
net of your showered attentive
purpose
well then
bequeath me
your widened birth
of pelted insight
while arresting this sadness
that saddles my neglected heart
loan to it if you will
a fine set of sturdy legs
so from me
it can walk away
no exchange for such gift
need ever be discussed
a tell tale sheet of discarded
scratch paper
renders me
suddenly quite silent
the surprise of realization
boggles my disbelieving brow
I am not as immune to your charms
as I would have you believe
vulnerability can be such a bitch
sometimes
a shy grin hovers at my quaint distorted
mirth
the trap looks far too attractive
for this prey
and damn you
cause you know it too.............
(Nov. 11, 1999)
