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The Eclectic Pen - Structure


By: Eva L. (wearetrees)   + 37 more  
Date Submitted: 3/20/2011
Genre: Literature & Fiction » Poetry
Words: 82
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  Say a word that I might have
A word
against me
a bone against which to brace
and hunger for,
menace and misuse,
or
defer to

(A slip of the tongue is still sustenance)

A warning,
Or a summons
Some common moral bane
with which I can measure the distance between
things –

love

and panic

I’ve come to learn
some signs are closer
than they appear,
not hanging on the metallic horizon but
nearer the vein
There –

just beside the swollen pore, the tastebud
the resemblance unreal
to all those real things we displace

with our words


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ericjasongastelum - 6/16/2011 5:53 PM ET
you haunt me
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