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Original Language
English
Swallowed

Themes
  Dawn
  Garden
  Honey
  Lotus
  Lover and Beloved

 

Bees fight over flowers,
great winged battles
all buzzes and body slams.
I claw the day to reach you.
I've lightened the ship,
thrown everything overboard,
become empty, high floating, waiting.
Pelicans land and find nothing to eat.
The morning fog tastes of you,
of the salt on your skin.
The waves are your love whispers.
I am swallowed by this hunger
that circles me yet you are everywhere.

 

 

 

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