What is this great, Love,
that takes me always
coarse from howls
late into the night?

It wants some--
One to appear
from the stars shooting,
innocently, as if they
had somewhere better

To be than of this thicket
of this hooded,
red forest, Earth.

07/30/2007

Posted on 07/30/2007
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