M.L. Squier Poems

The darkness is not in me or thee,
It is in the times,
And we scream, not at each other,
But at the times,
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Relative humidity
With increasing winds
Partly cloudy
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The soul who meets another
Face-to-face and body-to-body.
This volcanic, voluptuous kissing
Is a dark river in me
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AS BRIEF AS A DRAGONFLY'S REPOSE
[James Russell Lowell]

What does it mean when a
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There is A Fear
of Walking Out
Without Leaving
Any Golden Footsteps.
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I could not find
The laurel flower
Such a flower I have
Never grown
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Dedicated to the people of Afghanistan


Echoes of Tamerlane, Genghis Khan, and Alexander
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I am the architectural wonder
Of the grand and crawly insect world

I can bend my body better than
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Baal of Baalbek sat with Baboo the baboon &
Listened to baby Bacchus dancing & howling
At a bacchanal beneath the holy moon
All of the loud babble of Babel
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AnD tHeRe It WaS.

ThE vErY fIrSt StAr.
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