Aria Ligi Poems

Some held a mass at her grave-
Petals strewn on the mild lave.
Granite-rose a gray façade,
Interred within where she strode,
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I am on my knees before them,
Yet, they remain strangely unaware
They are driven by sonar,
The redolent aromas of roses, lilies and honeysuckle
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The goodness of his heart was set,
An azure, domed cabochon
Not faceted, simple
Enthroning us, in his stolidness
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There is a litany for the dead;
The pine box, the urn,
The eyes dilated on the anodized plate growing wider
Bubble domed tearless sacs, buckshot in the afterglow;
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Do you hear me when I call, and know that is all;
All I came to do- Hear tenderly, and know we are one,
Behind the rise and the set of the sun.
We are subsumed in this finite skin,
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Do the trees dance the Saraband?
That bawdy swaying, undulating Couru?
Do they move in poetic refrains
Ethereal and celestial
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His fingers read my body like Braille, skimming the epidermis
Along the fine downy trail
We are on a scarlet sea
His hands in my mouth, my teeth in his bones,
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It is a yearning thing that velvet crimson opening
Steeped in rhythmic waves and ebony silk
Streetlights, stiff as soldiers salute us, then withdraw
Black leather caught their eye calling - card of a criminal
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Caramel and taffy, chocolate mint-creams
Sticks of sugar-cane she sucked endlessly
In her Dunk'n' Donuts uniform, lips coated
Fingers caked in confectionary powders
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