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As If A Lantern In Love Led

Amy King

Like you I have
forgotten everything
spoken so far,
I knew the dinosaurs
in their history
and I have a complex tie
that longs to be subtracted.
All together, we make each other
up.  I gave you
a little slice of heartache
to latch onto
& a sixty-pound cumulous cloud
cools her way
straight to the top.
Bashfully enamored eyes
descend as we speak
silently above
the moonlit stove of midnight.
© 2004 Amy King. All rights reserved.
From Antidotes for an Alibi | BlazeVox [books], 2005
Reprinted by permission of the author.
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