I WILL read ashes for you, if you ask me.
I will look in the fire and tell you from the gray lashes
And out of the red and black tongues and stripes,
I will tell how fire comes
And how fire runs far as the sea.
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded
by Lisa Russ SpaarNever to belong again to wings
that lifted, to heart,
to blood’s forsaking bodice:
this lyric forceps,
felled flèche d’amour,
furcular picked and dried
with earthy feints of sage
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