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About Zen Oleary

Timeline (1943 - )

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Original Language
English
You Are Like That

Themes
  Fire
 
 
 
 

 

There's an ache in me
as if I were chewing
my own insides
or had tumbled
garbage-bagged,
into the day.
Beauty leaks in.
It tickles me with fire.
You are like that,
touching me with flames
till I undress the present
and drop the past.

 

 

 

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