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September

              The grasses are light brown

              and the ocean comes in

              long shimmering lines

              under the fleet from last night

              which dozes now in the early morning

Here and there horses graze

              on somebody’s acreage

                               Strangely, it was not my desire

that bade me speak in church to be released

         but memory of the way it used to be in

careless and exotic play

               when characters were promises

      then recognitions.  The world of transformation

is real and not real but trusting.

                            Enough of these lessons?  I mean

didactic phrases to take you in and out of

love’s mysterious bonds?

                      Well I myself am not myself

           and which power of survival I speak

for is not made of houses.

          It is inner luxury, of golden figures

that breathe like mountains do

            and whose skin is made dusky by stars.

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