I love the winding course you take to the excellent last line
What would it be like not to have prefigured it in the title?
Terri )O(
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Subject: New Poem: The Delineation of Love
The Delineation of Love
You sleep even as sunshine
blankets the bedroom
Tiny red ants tramp up the hose
onto my arms legs breast
The garden bears few flowers
Stems bend in the arid air
Yesterday you handed me
a few scarlet roses
Their perfume steamed
through the summer night
The aged claret tasted
like an ancient song
You and I kissed in rhapsody
with its primordial sound
The full moon reddened
another woman in her cycle
A hummingbird sucks from
an apple sapling's last blossoms
I see your smile in the window
Your cheeks flush in the light
I know the delineation of love
Ryfkah 7/7/02
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