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You might want to learn about this,
How we make a palace of the hovel of our joys.

The world keeps within its folds each treasured blueprint
and you will only see them spread in a passing movement:
How that child's face falls as you are revealed,
incapable of understanding imaginary spires
and drawbridges closing, barbicans of desire.

Just walls instead, and you riding naked before them,
lips smeared with ash, your mount angry with incomprehension
and a saddle hobbed, cruel beneath your thighs.
Enfiladed, oil and molten lead, bolts and arrows
invisible, sighing about you.

You'll easily counter it, of course, with your armour.
Your rigid, fibrous heart crashing in your chest.


Caleb Cluff
Majorca, VIC.
27/02/07



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