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THANATOS

for Lise

  

On Lago di Garda: a time to collect thoughts

and renew love. All morning under my ear

the lure of water clonks through the dark

in the lonely Lilo on which I ride,

bronzed by a tourist sun, arms sunk in cool,

a fugitive, an unnorthed compass pin,

idle inside the closed eyes’ hatch of red.

...

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

  

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