This is just lovely! I like how each line is in and of itself a poem.
Millicent
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From: Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
To: POETRYETC <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tue, Jul 5, 2011 9:03 pm
Subject: His Wide Face with those Invisible Eyes
He stands, so much
o protect, afraid.
s each word falls
orward, toward
him. He gets through
ach moment,
rained to
isappear.
Transparency e-
apses into girth.
isguises core,
old off ago.
And thus, the autonomic
unctions
appen beneath
hat he may know.
heila E. Murphy
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