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Tag / flushed

March 5, 2012 by ebbtide

light resides

  • Poetry
  • birds, escape, flight, flushed, freedom, light, longing, love, poem, Poetry, stillness, want
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light resides
in the quiet crook
of your elbow
were I to unbend it
or raise my head
from where my hair
loves the smooth
turns of you
it would surely escape
fly out the open window
pulling along behind
the rest of me
flushed as birds
from fields at dusk

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