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between dark dreams
I know nothing
of the poet Audre Lorde.
Yet I know she is
a carving in water
held in an ebony chalice.
I know nothing of her anger,
yet I believe her capable
of devouring the unspent pain
of secret insomniacs. Sleepless,
I see her before an altar of flame
kept in an urn of shadows.
I truly know nothing
of this woman, of her lips'
lamentations or of what she does
beyond midnight, but I believe
that she thrashes in the quick
of sleep caught between dark dreams
in a net sewn of severed hearts.
Published in Danse Macabre
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