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naxos

Post by constantine » December 30th, 2011, 11:43 pm

life emanates from the sea
salt channels through our veins
through flats and ravines
achieving animation, and
then returning to stone

i run, in my own time i run
and the things that i've seen, all
that i have seen, runs behind me
alongside and within

gulls and cobblestones
tugboats, the sugar wharf
street urchins, out of dickens
plunder the five and ten
a vicious, feral joy

was it in constantinople
a peruvian marketplace
ten years ago, today?
yesterday is tomorrow too
these alleys, byzantine, complex

greek meanders, mariner
sails, the subterranean tunnels of love
the ancient, maudlin sorrow, joined
like a village dance, communal
arm in arm, steps in time
that graces, and borders the linen
the dowry of virgin and crone
incisions in marble flesh

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Re: naxos

Post by judih » December 31st, 2011, 12:53 am

simply gorgeous, dino

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Re: naxos

Post by constantine » December 31st, 2011, 10:21 am

you're a sweetie! happy new year to you, judih

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Re: naxos

Post by judih » January 2nd, 2012, 11:36 am

and a l'chaim to you
retsina and blushes

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