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20061217 - Sunday Prayer XXXVI

from The Song Diary I by Paleo

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SUNDAY PRAYER, xxxvi


Time & time again,
the stems of cherries and my tongue
square off a knot and are undone.
This is the pits. This is my stunt.
Like the wind, I won't be seen.
Like the wind, you can almost hold me.
But like the wind, I slip away.
Here tomorrow, gone today I am, I am.


Time & time again,
who cares to stare into the air?
Sometimes I swear that I can see it,
the way my hands can nearly steal it.
Lungs chew the breeze and spit it out
into mouths waylaid by smiles
that these tiny teeth produce.
A cherry stem is newly noosed. I am, I am, I am.


But you're a birthday,
deep with the dayshine.
Dusk to a moonbreak,
the dust of keepsakes.


Time & time again, I am, I am.




DAS - Athens, Georgia, USA

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from The Song Diary I, released April 15, 2007

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