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On a remembered line
On a remembered line
Did you too, poet, dream thus?
In dreams embattled by wishes to wake
into them, I suffer soft ceremonies of sacrifice
- she turning, rigidly bewildered, into stone
accreting like an alien bone, deep inside me.
Sometimes then I wish to hold her, as
if my touch could shake this sedimentation, this
terrible drying into the mere debris of my days
and I twist my dream to reach her:
Twist, and know already that my touch is
a fate worse than gold.
That is her tomb, then, my heart grown stone
with sacrifices I can no longer say
have our names etched on them.
Did you too, poet, wonder then,
if sacrifices ever have names that mean
their sacrifice? Meanings
really carved in stone?
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