Estrella

        a star pinpoint exclamation in a black satin sky
a seed falling in forest pond ripples waving while they radiate
      orange glow of industrial lamps picking out your nesting curls
a termite megacity glowing from within with dark cedar light
    a cold day in autumn salt lick spray whips
sprawling structures narrows elegant thread-like neurons
   lashes our faces on the boat like lines slapping against the keel
greedy prokaryotic brutal driven hunger lapping and blurring the fine wireframe construction mobile
   taut, straining... cables strong as silvered spider's slender and unbreakable wire
 we look at your teardrop hooded eyes and we begin to oscillate in harmony
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 in the twelve knots and storm we kiss her lips
 cold salt slick but with a line of fire
 hot breath of a fingerhole caldera fuming through the snow
down they say down is where we come from
we do rise to the center yes we do chimney up the brow
furrows detective alert and aware and ever calculating balancing
never sleep again with despair, on this ferry
escape velocity is simply to run away from certainty
she is beloved by eternity.
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