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(on kindling the forbidden past)

by  ksprinkle

Posted: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Word Count: 43
Summary: turn once, then again, an ex-lover here, there, everywhere.






fire and elegance
broken
like the heart
of Rome
in a single stroke
of history

[a flame inside this dancing duel
persists]

his unholy eyes
beacons in darker days

now
i turn with want
and burn,
marking cinders
with the flood
of years.