poetry critical

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Random Poem:

the master, teaching her the craft
slancho

The solace of being able to imagine herself happy -
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sliding off fertile waist his head, in a dervish, oblivious
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to moderation and pious prayers,
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the cracked earth swallowed him like a teardrop heaved
 4
in the belly of a unveiled monster
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on his knees before the face of a lion.
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His shape in sun-feathered twilight:
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lips broken loose, eyebrows cast iron,
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chest, a tattoo mounted in the shape of a yes to evoke
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on his way through the monotone drumming of time,
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stunned, like a rock by the sea
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obediently receiving ablutions of salt on hot ash.
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Dizzy with anticipation, her pupils pull him into her
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and all incorrigible sorrow falls into ruin, melts
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as she draws close  
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to bring forth
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the white breast of his heart,
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cupped in her hands.
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His body, washed into a scream,
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vanishes into quicksand;
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a woman cries on the shore -
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the wife of the man
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made out of a thousand islands.
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