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THE RED POEM

 

only from Thought’s dolphin

gashed head to tail

and flung ashore dead

 

could Love have been birthed

washed in brine elevated

to stroll bare ashore

 

dripping her fluids

on dead fields to make

red anemones

...

   

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

   

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