Nearest
the Wick
All of
us
pink-palmed, fragile
sealed in private flame:
a brain blazes
a groin smolders
a heart falls to ash
If a poet can dowse
sleep's terrain,
could a poem soothe sapphire:
hottest part of fire?
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After
Reading Paul Celan
Dream snow
in mulberry cave
driven out
still burning
break words open
sleep in attic
no roof
icicle shatters skylight
each shard
frostfashioned
blooms
dismembered
goldswept
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