Fountain of Youth
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seanfarragher
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Posted: 22 February 2005 Word Count: 80 Summary: Traditional Valentine's Day Poem 2-14-05 Related Works: From the Book of Byzantium -- Parts 1 and 2 • Hurrah, Hooray, Huzzah • Modern Man Discovers Dark Matter • No Milk and Cookies • Parnassus • Tsunami 12/26/2004 • |
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Fountain of Youth
Cast the sky in silver skin;
let it breathe its open ends
when you and I are raised
upon the tree as arms extend--
clasp finger with ripe fruit,
crush of Venus, swollen cleft
where rivers blend lips spend
daylight from gray vaults
every cell renews whole cloth.
I watch your eyes retrieve the dark
My mouth has stars and broken ark
We live together as fields are sowed
in the next chapters we are not old.
Cast the sky in silver skin;
let it breathe its open ends
when you and I are raised
upon the tree as arms extend--
clasp finger with ripe fruit,
crush of Venus, swollen cleft
where rivers blend lips spend
daylight from gray vaults
every cell renews whole cloth.
I watch your eyes retrieve the dark
My mouth has stars and broken ark
We live together as fields are sowed
in the next chapters we are not old.
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