PS Conway

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i pace around the wishing well
my final gold coin
pressed deep in my palm

anxiety is a wish inverted
a mind subverted by worry

i could walk away
buy you a diamond ring
drop to one knee

or be magnanimous
cast it down the well
and see what emerges
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#poetry #vss365

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we learned in our youth
to cherish the land,

for what it can yield,
it could also deny,

and hunger runs soul deep,
an ache greater than love,

the greatest hand we can lend
is one to plant the seed

from which springs the tree,
its fruit, bountiful and sweet.
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#poetry #vss365

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you broke my routine
carb-stuft Sunday brunches
fingers syrup sticky
pieces of napkin stuck
to my don’t-give-a-fuck face
as if i’d forgotten
a reason to bother
no chapstick for tacky lips
content in neglect
indolent locks unkempt
weekend lethargy
feeds another nap
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#poetry #vss365

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another moonstruck night,
dizzy beneath cicada spells,
illucid orb, you beguile me,

‘til the air falls silent, listening
to the gathering clouds whisper,
wondrous as a name,

the insincerity of clarity,
cataract opacity,
watching my muse slip away…
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#poetry #vss365

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mud and blood
crows pulling stringy things
from the remains

meat and heat
an inglorious Morrigan
washes at the ford

gloam and bone
halflight horse hoof crushing
no green in sight

dull blanched skull
the splendor of a spiderweb
calling from its socket
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#poetry #vss365

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the poet seeks comfort
outside the window
of his one room loft

comfort in the laughter
of obstreperous geese
passing past the glass

comfort in the March sunlight
exploring warmly
golden fingers in his hair

at once timid
yet inquisitive
and altogether silent.
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#poetry #vas365

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be it eyesight
or foresight,
i shall defend us
and the purity of our love.

disregard the others,
no one is tilting
at windmills,
giants stand poised
at the border.

think not of me
as your hero, no,
just a man on a horse
on a quest to rescue
what remains of honor.
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#poetry #vss365

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restraint
tainted by obsession
an effigy
on a pedestal
a likeness of you
when love was real
love was new

retained
in alabaster plaster
something pretty
to observe
or better yet
worshipped
when it burns.
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#poetry #vss365

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oh, how you loved to watch
the meteor showers
through that telescope,

all lights extinguished
your inhalations
catching in your throat,

you could not breathe
but in that moment,
you did not care,

your soul ascended
to greet them,
eager in its exit velocity.
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#poetry #vss365

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we are connected
by our unique gravities,

an everlasting handfast,
bound by cosmic strings,

no longer a theory,
no longer a problem
to solve,

two bodies curving space
through our orbital adoration,

gamboling around
a warm, tender sun.
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#poetry #vss365

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i've learned to live
deprived of oxygen
but i suppose
it’s nitrogen
that makes up
all this air

breath is overrated -
and you need so much
of it to speak;

so i listen,
i ponder -
and drift off like stardust
to join the stellar beings
who require no air
to breathe.
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#poetry #vss365

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pollen floats above the meadow,
the red cows must fade
to shadow,

they do not belong among
fecund things,

fertility pleases the gods,
even while snow clings
to the lea side of trees,

milking them once more -
knowingly a sin.
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#poetry #vss365

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wine flows like blood
in our private Bacchanalia

flesh caressed
beneath the hands
of the writhing willful

we are razed by passion
crazed eyes consume

licking the sweat
off each other’s backs
sends shivers down the spine

we are of the gods
& tonight, i am yours
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#poetry #vss365

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i watch the stars of god
fall across an endless
night sea,

one light extinguished
after another,
until darkness pervades,

it reminds me of
our love
that had already died,

and the blatant lie
that its light might remain.
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#poetry #vss365

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you’ve often told me
the low growl in my chest
when we embrace

when i caress your face
each time we kiss
makes you want me

if only you'd see
how thick your scent
stirs me

fills me to the marrow
with a beastly ardor
i cannot slake

here beneath
this harvest moon
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#poetry #vss365

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i am in that world again
ammonia air hot
lungs burning for want of
clean air

you are not there
in the methane lakes
seething exotically
seeking to drown me

for want of a cup of tea
the grace of white linen
and
cucumber dainties

i am mystified
stranded
again –
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#poetry #vss365

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i want to become helium
sing your name
at my highest ranges

swell your heart like a balloon
so we can soar into a waiting blue

no string to tether us
from joining the birds
in their daybreak hymns

bouncy as first breaths
until even gravity lets us go
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#poetry #vss365

Thank you so much 🙏🏻🍷

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this is how we end:
with a paucity of words

absent apologies
mouths sewn shut
obsidian upon our eyelids

and a mountainous silence
eager to be heard
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#poetry #vss365

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let us build
our new home
high amongst the leaves,

in a scaffolding of trees,
far away
from prying eyes

in this aerie
of love’s design,
we can trace the night sky
with our own
enchanted lullabies,

sing the faeries to sleep,
so only we remain
awake.
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#poetry #vss365