BY THE RIVER

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There was once a blue marble
that grew to the size of a coffin
and melted away into seething
blank plastique faces.
Then a woman
of black hair
and nakedness erect;
no shame, just an open heart
and empty hands
and the smooth swells of two breasts.

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