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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>butrfly's estrip.org Blog</title><link>https://estrip.org</link><description><![CDATA[butrfly's estrip.org journal]]></description><language>en-us</language><skipHours/><skipDays/><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><generator>Paul Visco's surebert framework RSS creator</generator><item><title>poems for a sad fall day</title><link>https://estrip.org/articles/read/butrfly/21040/poems_for_a_sad_fall_day.html</link><description><![CDATA[athough all i can think about is politics today, all i want to write about is this. . . <br />
the personal is political right<br />
<br />
paper wings <br />
<br />
i begin here, <br />
ducking from work and the responsiblity of day and day, hiding my love <br />
because i know that this is the matter that makes up forever myths <br />
tales that end in ever after <br />
a transparent sun colored orb. light and glowing <br />
as it grows <br />
<br />
permenant <br />
this mark of golden ink on palms <br />
like the blood of fear dying <br />
<br />
the taste of fear&#039;s blood will blind you from <br />
the voices <br />
<br />
the gasping for breathe is gentle melody, <br />
the soundtrack of each moment <br />
in a necklace yellow stones in string towards <br />
forever, <br />
wraping around the trunk of safety&#039;s tree. <br />
<br />
<br />
on my back <br />
held fragile there <br />
parchment wings for to fly. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
breath <br />
<br />
she leads the life that is sound of air <br />
pushed quickly, <br />
with panic wheezing through the swaying <br />
<br />
trees of her lungs <br />
like an autumn night <br />
with high full moon <br />
and the first chill of fall. <br />
the sounds of spirits <br />
<br />
giving chase <br />
and howling to one another <br />
sometimes the memories tighten <br />
here in the time when summer teeters <br />
<br />
slowly and dangerously into cold. slow motion in wind gusts <br />
she sways here curving inward <br />
with her nose seeking the smell of <br />
soft and warm <br />
this saves the spine from breaking, splinters flying <br />
<br />
this will not be a song of tender ravishing <br />
this pressure is not sweet like lovemaking but bitter like a persistant slow rolling boulder <br />
with this again she must learn the rhythm of <br />
labored breath.<br />
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