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affliction

sauve translation
the neon tube fire
burning like an oracle

this affection
I watch transfixed
your slender cold hands
upon my chest
your breath through
my dress shirt

how many lives
have I lived
you once asked

how many tommorows
have you seen
and you smiled

"I have seen them all"

— Esker, Mar 25, 2011

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Region, Country: north ontario, CAN

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Nordic cloud

Nordic cloud

15 years 2 months ago

An old hand!

No I meant not that.
This intimacy I know of,
it is so simple and beautiful a communication,
when the mind is perfectly at rest,
it doesn't wish to be asked such questions,
but here they were asked;
and we still feel the intimacy of worth.

Love to you Steven from Ann.

Esker

Esker

15 years 2 months ago

light speed

conversion
from steam era to oil

stammer in recoil
the hesitant lust
propells
and the wake froths
like a cold tonic

beneath the hot bulb illumination
I wait
in a room darkened to a tombs likeness
the walled labrynth
the peaceful bumps in the night

only when time gives notion to reflect
can one tell how close
how close anyone came

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