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From: at8j@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Ryerson Schwark)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: L5, a poem
Message-ID: <298@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: Wed, 14-May-86 14:48:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: batcompu.298
Posted: Wed May 14 14:48:19 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 18-May-86 11:42:58 EDT
Reply-To: at8j@batcomputer.UUCP (Ryerson Schwark)
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Organization: Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Laughter, like hard candy spilled from his lips
hard as noon sunshine, bright but not garish
his eyes, his eyes
holes into space, ice velvet caress
shone with the galaxies lost within
I smiled

	"hmm?"
		no reason

where did you get you hair,
like spun moonlight
and your hands
of cool marble that fire
the Forge with delicate fervor?
"I don't know" he said

  as if it had mattered.

your warmth in my arms,
  torched my ice castle dreams,
your touch seared skin,
  too long callous and cold.

And then,

   I awoke
     and cried
     still alone.


Ryerson Schwark
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