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HER ANSWER

      Para sobrevivirme te forjé como un arma.

                                                Pablo Neruda

 

Male body.  Hot.  Your chest is a precipice

eagled above me and losing its control.

I suck you into my lethal, common thighs.

Gored, so you think.  I do it for our child.

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(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

   


1‘To outlive myself I forged you as a weapon.’   (back)

  

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