Crystal Rosser Poems

I part with my heart set neatly upon the table;
A salami pricker beside it,
I part with the clothes still hanging damp
On the line
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In a curl, I have met the calm of my winter,
Underneath raw, midnight skies
And through moonlight and trees,
Opalescent reflections and linear auras.
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When I think of you,
I think of your skin
As hard, sleek leather,
As soft as a cloud,
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What becomes of a moony mind?
Entombed, in a hardened case —
Warmth kept from light —
Spoiling in a jar —
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I see your rage,
Like taillights in the distance,
And purple mountains crashing,
In a thick void.
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Behind my eyes, I begin to see you, love
Through the thick haze of darkness
How deeply I long for your hands grasping
And your lips sweeping.
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It echoes, it echoes
An ache to speak, my love;
Our dreams we dream
Side-by-side
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My sorrow is full of you -
Bones - sore of you -

Tender - I glisten in the wind -
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I've grown to love myself in the lost
In the fade of smiles and touch
In the echoes of innocents and laughter
Twirling years of hair between my fingers
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Time unravels us ­-
Grain by grain - quiet and still -
Side-way glances - soft and low -
Heavens pass through us -
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