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- From: ag167@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Don Pavlish)
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- Subject: we married last night... [poem]
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- Date: 25 Dec 92 02:17:07 GMT
- Reply-To: ag167@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Don Pavlish)
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- NOTES:
- 1) This work is still a bit rough, (I think).
- 2) I welcome any comments & criticsm, posted or e-mailed.
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- (for Michelle)
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- we married last night under the milky way,
- last night in the deep hours before dawn:
- our last night together &
- in front of your fireplace
- a silent proposal was made,
- embers glowing sunset red and us holding each other
- lost in the post-midnight blackness
- and drifting...
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- the dream-time was years from now:
- parent-years, grandparent-years, all passed
- and long behind us, and a certain pressure filled
- my head funneling towards my soul
- searching for memories that
- inexplicably
- weren't yet there
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- I then entered a state of duality
- a state where I was both here and later;
- holding you against me and
- watching us from a plateau
- twenty, thirty, fifty years high:
- it was a barren landscape and we were
- each wandering alone
- across lost, drifting sands
- blind to each other's paths
- grey and dying
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- and by the time I woke in your arms
- continents had drifted apart and fresh stars had
- supernovaed and collapsed inwards
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- we soon headed outside:
- ice cracked
- frost snapped &
- snow softly broke underfoot,
- pronouncing us man and wife
- and
- the stars above honored the newlyweds with clear blue song;
- december showered us with heavenly snowboughs;
- porch-hung icicles cried tears of crystal joy;
- barren trees bowed in the bitter winds,
- tipped their tophats &
- gravely shook hands with man and wife across the deep-gray backyard,
- wishing us the best of luck in the
- future
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