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Dancing in the yard at Eden, Limited edition, Orta San Giulio Italy, 2012


From Dancing in the yard at Eden:


Dancing in the yard at Eden
 
Going down in sunlight, the bright
flow in the crevice prickles the detail:
always, in the valley, that ghost


the future, leans with young insolence

in the shadow; the cool laughing
that thud taken in silence.

It must always be like this:
a stabbed abdomen, a woman bleeding

the sun making the dark.



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