There’s a kind of ancient traditional feel to this, Sharon; as if written by anonymous a long time ago (& that’s a compliment)..
Doug
> On Sep 21, 2016, at 5:49 PM, sharon brogan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> This pale sky. Another day
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> like this page, broad, blank.
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> I've lost touch with the moon.
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> I no longer know its phase or its place.
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> I sleep through the short nights
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> and the long afternoons.
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> How is it I grow older
> when I have been old for so long?
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Four or five couplets trying to dance
into Persia. Who dances in Persia now?
A magic carpet, a prayer mat, red.
A knocked off head of somebody on her broken knees.
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