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The twilight falls I soften the dusting feathers	A
And clean again	B
The house has lain and moldered for three days	C
The windows smeared with rain the curtains torn	D
The mice come in	E
The kitchen blown with cold	F
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I keep the house and say no words	G
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It is true I am as twisted as the cactus	H
That gnarls and turns beside the milky light	I
That cuts the fingers easily and means nothing	J
For all the pain that shoots along the hand	K
I dust the feathers down the yellow thorns	L
I light the stove	M
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The gas curls round the iron fretwork the flame	N
Floats above the lace	O
And bounces like a dancer stayed on air	P
Fire does not rest on iron it drifts like a blue blossom	Q
And catches on my breath	R
Coiling spinning the blue foam of the gas fire	S
Writhes like a naked girl	T
Turns up its face like her	S
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She came to me in rain	U
I did not know her I did not know my name	N
After she left to bed her children down	V
To phone her husband they were gone asleep	W
And she lying a pure fire in the feathers	A
Dancing above the ironwork of her bed	X
Roaring and singeing nothing	J
She had not wound her arms about me then	B
She had not dared	Y
I only took her coat and smiled to hear	Z
How she had left her purse and her umbrella	A2
In the theater how she was sopping cold	F
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With the fall rain and mine was the one light	I
In the neighborhood She came to my gas fire	S
And lay before it sprawled her pure bare shoulders	A
Folded in a doze a clear cold curve of stone	B2
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I only leaned above the hair	P
Turned back the quilt arranged the feet the arms	C2
And kissed the sleeping shoulder lightly like the rain	U
And when she woke to wear her weathered clothes	D2
I sent her home	E2
She floated a blue blossom over the street	F2
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And when she came again	B
It was not long before she turned to me	G2
And let her shawl slide down her neck and shoulder	S
Let her hair fall	H2
And when she came again	B
It did not rain	U
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Her husband came to pluck her like an apple	I2
As the drunken farmer lurches against the tree	G2
Grips the green globe not long beyond its bloom	J2
And tears the skin brutally out of the bark	K2
Leaves the whole bough broken	L2
The orchard torn with many footprints	M2
The fence swung wide	N2
On a raw hinge	O2
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And now it is said of me	G2
That my love is nothing because I have borne no children	L2
Or because I have fathered none	L2
That I twisted the twig in my hands	P2
And cut the blossom free too soon from the seed	Q2
That I lay across the fire	S
And snuffed it dead sooner than draft or rain	U
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But I have turned away and drawn myself	R2
Upright to walk along the room alone	B2
Across the dark the spines of cactus plants	S2
Remind me how I go aloof obscure	T2
Indifferent to the words the children chalk	U2
Against my house and down the garden walls	V2
They cannot tear the garden out of me	G2
Nor smear my love with names Love is a cliff	W2
A clear cold curve of stone mottled by stars	X2
smirched by the morning carved by the dark sea	G2
Till stars and dawn and waves can slash no more	Y2
Till the rock s heart is found and shaped again	B
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I keep the house and say no words the evening	J
Falls like a petal down the shawl of trees	Z2
I light the fire and see the blossom dance	A3
On air alone I will not douse that flame	N
That searing flower I will burn in it	B3
I will not banish love to empty rain	U
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For I know that I am asked to hate myself	R2
For their sweet sake	C3
Who sow the world with child	D3
I am given to burn on the dark fire they make	C3
With their sly voices	E3
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But I have burned already down to bone	B2
There is a fire that burns beyond the names	F3
Of sludge and filth of which this world is made	G3
Agony sears the dark flesh of the body	G2
And lifts me higher than the smoke to rise	H3
Above the earth above the sacrifice	I3
Until my soul flares outward like a blue	J3
Blossom of gas fire dancing in mid air	P
Free of the body s work of twisted iron	K3

James Arlington Wright

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