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SACRIFICIAL WINE
Men with feasting eyes
look up to fill the cup
look down to hopeless strangers
look to seeding thighs while
tucked up in their beds
in dreams of sweat and horror
as light stays low
through window traps
and bloated thoughts entwine
the flesh like celandine
despoiled by salty hands
foraging with desperate lust
the fragile petals of simple trust
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Saturday 4th June 2016 9:25 pm
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