Krista TaltsNassehi Poems

Caravaggio

knelt in admiration of self,
arms outstretched as he tried to embrace
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The Sun Stands Still at Midnight

The equator rolls.
The earth quivers.
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Back and Forth in Time
(A poem in three parts)

Part I - The Attic
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SHALL WE DANCE?

I asked you when you were a child.
I spun you in the air,
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The Man Who Touched the Moon


Two children, nourished at the
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Lizard Dance

On a long forgotten road.
On a moonless desert night.
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I-Midnight

Surrounded by milk breaths
of the child in her arms, she
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