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canvas metaphors This is a very personal poem which I wrote to an artist friend about a woman we both loved. And still do. i miss her the body is as bold as ever but the eyes the eyes: they are empty sockets
unable to heal it's christian zeal that keeps the razor from her wrist only barely
yet: barely is enough when the heart is collapsed the soul is stopped the blood is curdled
but i miss her and have seen your longing locked forever into canvas metaphors you shove beneath your bed and stack pile upon pile
in the corners of your different life
so we miss her how we do miss her:
the poetry she kept in cupboards for rainy days and rainy friends
the tears shed in buckets for me, you, god's children and debbie lee
the lust that moved her to seek a reflection that would make the need for the razor obsolete
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