study for a vacant altar
study for a vacant altar
i feel sure there are wounds left to write 1
and the autumn limousines 2
stretch the credibility of 3
my own season’s lack of fame. 4
staring from the high places 5
these sanctified empty sheets; 6
who dares foul them, 7
who is chaste by choice 8
is what they’d welcome 9
to bloody with another whose blossom’s regrown 10
and in gratitude exchange 11
sanity for fecundity, 12
empty pages for a swelling belly. 13
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