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RED MUSE POEMS
By David Eide
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Out of the sea we came laughing
as the bitterness of the night
drifted on from celebrations
in the circled woods;
damp, misshaped woods strung
with lanterns, our friends
strangers of our friends
clinking their glasses
and carrying useless conversations
from one innuendo to the next.
While breathless and intense
we loved on the dark river bank,
washed our bodies in the silt of it
covered ourselves in the shame of the earth
and the earth loved it.
And when the sky grew crepuscular
we washed ourselves with the dim
daylight;
we laughed and nearly drowned in it
until we rested like the shadow
and saw the stars fade as the city
we had run from; that had chased us
and was waiting to claim us once more.
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