This Poem was Submitted By: Stephen M Gallagher On Date: 2001-06-02 12:47:57 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Victim

Against overlapping blades of grass falls a  dance of black feathers on olive skin.  Echoes of  broken porcelain in clay, red with perspiration,  rise from a battle already lost.  A prey without  shadow marked by the scent of rust. Your eyes find me    a ladder without rungs  lost in ambient movement  our hands enfold  your breath against me  “Nobody is watching”   darkness comes over us   the wick burned to its end.   Your skin on my tongue  blood on my hands.      

Copyright © June 2001 Stephen M Gallagher


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