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Stanza 1
- Your hand is heavy, Night, upon my brow.
- I bear no heart mercuric like the clouds,
- to dare.
- Exacerbation from your subtle plough.
- Woman as a clam, on the sea’s crescent.
- I saw your jealous eye quench the sea’s
- Fluorescence, dance on the pulse incessant
- Of the waves. And I stood, drained
- Submitting like the sands, blood and brine
- Coursing to the roots. Night, you rained
- Serrated shadows through dank leaves
- Till, bathed in warm suffusion of your dappled cells
- Sensations pained me, faceless, silent as night thieves.
- Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth
- I must hear none! These misted cells will yet
- Undo me; naked, unbidden, at Night’s muted birth.
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