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The Open Night

<p>You, this forgotten shadow, / That rests in a flowering memory / Is the kiss of root and berry.</p>

Creative

I feel myself in the open night

Planting woad and chicory,

They are familiar with each other’s ways 

 

You, this forgotten shadow,

That rests in a flowering memory

Is the kiss of root and berry.

 

Because they muttered words;

Language mixed with libido 

 

I’m unable to see you closely:

These shadows in the thunderbolts

Beckon in full bloom.

 

Growing rare in the torment 

Now living, loving, spent.

We are born, forever in the shadows. 

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