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Three Palimpsests for Daphne Marlatt
by Steven Ross Smith

i.

    A hand reaches

as if an undreamed-of dream surges from

a wrinkle in prune-dark sleep

                                         throws a shadow-startle down a throat

         (a gurgle of barks?)

thunder

           limbs reed-like, water-tossed

                   a shudder of tendrils

chokes off the blush of sun

a clutch of fisted throats

a grasp of thin fingers slips, fingers brush fear

's          Eros             wells

                                       walls

of water tumbling crazed snatch at solid no solid ground-gone-legless in tumult reeling water unswimmable dark pitch wet-whirl moment's nightsweat nightmare-come-real batters undoes unroots unbattens
                                                                               obliterates
                                                                                                    reclaims

 

 

 

 

 


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