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Francis Santaquilani
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Francis Santaquilani Poems
- We Are Tigers We are tigers. You are the larger one. I ...
- Sailing On He's in this room? He's not being rocked Side...
- I Like How You Pray I like how you pray. You just stop
- Quartz Clock Never by gold or silver hands On a black face, ...
- It Was An Unattended Death It was an unattended death. The...
- Abortion Haiku
- E.D. E.D. ascend for me always, Without end, in your ...
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We Are Tigers
We are tigers.
You are the larger one.
I warred against your whirl,
Then billowed to your bite.
Now I measure the force
Of your affection for me
In pounds per square inch.
That last day,
Before you carried me away,
That bad and good day,
The last day I thought of nothing
Swept horizontal:
Tall grass fanned my neck,
Half sleep was plump,
Clouds for clouds sake slid over me.
The day sank to my knees
And crawled with me in tow.
By your teeth
And your spin
The void fell away.
The day sped to a smudge
And clouds ...
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