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The White Stones

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On the hills of fortune: so that he
asks the time and it's grey, with
almost solemn insistence. Yes it is, so
that perhaps only the smell of resin
holds him to a single
hopefulness. She knows
that, there is an oblique
incitement, between them.
The branches dissolve upwards, into slivers
of the horizon: for each, the fear of this, or too
far into the side. The rift that she loves
to play, as forward, the sound of his breathing kind.
In the light, that each
might, running from both
in reach to the distance
that is unspoken, in the eye
where love is, and the sound of water, euterpe
shall it be called. They will play over
the slip, making the flesh and nails on the
handsome fingers, to the action of the light,
will play the open palm
hoping to keep to it, the fearful
exaction of love: in grey light
and hope in columns, by the river side.
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J.H. Prynne

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