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Falling in Love Again

By on Oct 1, 2012 in Poetry | Comments Off

“Never wanted to” – Marlene Dietrich You begin by believing women are chiffon pastels, floating on foam, soft petals yielding to softer centers. Naturally you compare them to roses. The shock of flesh is a grand surprise: heavy bodies wrestling. A bigger shock is the granite mind: that doorless cube where no one answers. These are really preparations for the throb of earth in your blood, gravity tugging at your shoes as you fall at the speed of life toward the truly astounding earth. You discover you actually want to fall: to yield and open layer on layer. Then women fade,...

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