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every poem is a synagogue
each prayer a torah a fire torch
to this lord's past his name & present fate
uncertain
that elegiac a strain against
the high ground
you stand in the night
hearing the ground cry
the groundlessness of being
slipping away demolished by the part
the stare, the start of each belief
crossed-eyed I's crossed she leans in
her whispering breath
hasty in his ear
hasty and near
she calls out his soul
rising
rising
he
privileged as democratic love
her lover he
rotates each principle of his
fidelity, his loyalty to her a theatre each day stages unheard of
actors actresses their virtual recommendation
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