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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The Collector



A collector bought my name from your lips

And wrapped it in a drop of rain

Like a ship in a bottle.


I published his crime in a book of poetry,

Which only emboldened him--

He then stole the softness of your hair from my fingertips.


I had him brought before a judge

On a day when the sun fell through the sky like a coin through a slot--

The judge said she was sick of testimony and contention

And declared a carnival.


I was the wheel, both lofty and low.


The collector was time.


And you,


You were the girl who laughed from a thousand mirrors,

Shook her hair,

And never spoke my name again.

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9 comments:

  1. Ih, this is sad even for me, you
    write to poignantly besutiful
    Shayshay, I want you to get and
    keep the ultimaste lover, as I
    do for myself.

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  2. What imagery! This is masterful, Fireblossom.

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  3. Ah, not the longed for ending.. but the beauty is in the vision of what might have been.

    I love your witchy Fireblossom.

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  4. Those betrayals written in so few words.. I think when we are betrayed we mostly rage in silence.

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  5. Sad, bittersweet, because there's always a sweetness to what we have lost, and full of a heart-language that is untranslatable, but clear as morning light--my favorite lines are
    "I was the wheel,both lofty and low/
    the collector was time..." ain't that the truth.

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  6. Goosebumps...and I love when that happens.

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  7. I was the wheel. Stuck at the top, maybe. Love this.

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  8. the last stanza is hauntingly reflective.

    the play on words in this piece is superb.

    oh, and the little witch to the right, she's pretty cute! :)

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