The Magic Window

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The light is gone, and nothing’s right,
Another wastrel of a day —
Come join me, and we’ll get away,
And take the magic window into night

For dreams of childhood remain;
Of distant lands and shining seas —
We’ll go and do whate’er we please,
Away from all these cold eyes’ sharp disdain

The world of faith and not of sight
Is beckoning for us to join;
So come, let us some joy purloin,
And take the magic window
Into night

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Almost Once

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They gave in almost once, and then
The silver stars went out again;
For what is night, but promises:
Desirable, and ominous —

The almost once was there and gone,
Emotions making each a pawn:
In squares that mark respective beds,
And dreams that live in only

Heads

How It Might Be

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And, yes –
I’ve thought how it might be
If we were more
Than you and me

I’ve wondered,
Filled with some unease,
At how far go
Our fantasies

For though
I don’t think overmuch –
A flash of taste,
A hint of touch

There have been
Times, I will admit,
I knew that I must –
Had to – quit.

It’s somewhere close
To misery:
So, yes –
I’ve thought how it
Might be

her carnival

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he didn’t even know her name

but she had clear and known demands;

he was to be an instrument

of tongue and body, limb and hands

within a sort of carnival

where power had been ceded —

he didn’t even know her name

but he knew what

she needed

In Thought

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She stays; but

In thought, she will fly

Past all this

Sunlight Shines

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The sunlight shines on fantasies
That grow like miracles in mind;
An aftertaste – an afterglow –
An afterthought of pleasures mined

As sense goes out as scents come in,
No cents exchanged to be repined —
As bodies turn to liquid fire,
As have, since ever sunlight
Shined

Holiday Vision

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Picture now, your winter leisure

Warm and comfy homely bliss:

This is what my house would look like

If it looked at all like this

The Tree of Love and Loss

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Beneath the tree of love and loss
We held each other closer than our skins

Beside the silent, watching swan
Who sees each fairy tale as it begins

But as in Tuonela, that
Same swan swims on to guard this world we flee

Beneath the tree of love and loss
Where “ever after” comes
Unhappily

Dream Girl

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She is his dream girl

But doesn’t

Know he’s her dream, too

No Talent for Certainty

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