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From: wa371@sdcc12.UUCP (wa371)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: Fire
Message-ID: <312@sdcc12.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-May-85 13:49:27 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 19 13:49:27 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 23-May-85 04:27:40 EDT
Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center
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Koelle Bodhi  (c) 1985

SLEEPING WITH FIRELIGHT

After you left I still needed to use  my body

I walked through the house

                    eating a buttered roll

            shutting the lights

        securing the locks

                  pulling the shades

        closing the door to my double bed room

    leaving myself in the firelight

        flames wavering and crackling

                   fire burning and speaking
 
             throwing shadows in a dance.

I took a soft and shallow sleep

             resting with the feel of you

                       in so many of my muscles

         waking now to some voice it seemed

              part of my dreaming, part of your speaking

        from the fire, through the fire

                               still warming my house. 


Posted for a friend by
Bernd <bear-nd> 
(Not affiliated with, nor speaking for U.C. San Diego)
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