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DawnI have kissed the summer dawnbefore the palaces nothing moved the water lay dead. Battalions of shadows still kept the forest road i walked, walking warm and vital breath while stones watched and wings rose soundlessly. ...a clear pale light ...a flower who told me its name I came upon the goddess Then one by one I lifted her veils across the meadow where I betrayed her to the cock. I hunted her And I hunted her! And smelled the scent of her immense body. Dawn and the child fell together at the bottom of the wood When I awoke, it was noon. Life was it really this? Life! |