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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Empress of Contrails Writes Upon Darkness - Anxiety of Influence - Original Version</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">.<br>for Anthros Del Mar</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"></a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I, on the other hand, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">have lain down with</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">countless thousands.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">My tent is worn out.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Stains mark love-cries, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">some blood where tongues</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">were ground down to root words, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">utterance hard pounded, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">soft tissue torn letter by letter, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">tender verbs opened to pain, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">that which is paid for more </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">than alabaster embraces </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and this strangling of waists</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>My tent has drained more</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">of love's body than a mortuary.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Spikenard scented oils taint </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">fabric folds and flesh. Rote, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">worn pillows are daily, sometimes </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">hourly turned where I half expect </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">to find teeth or coins, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">hoping still for one true word for</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">love without name else it flies, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">moths repelled instead by flame, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">pillows revealing nothing</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">but I turn them still.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>Oasis and cloaca, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">love birds parched, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">now moves caravansary</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">toward heart's always</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">winking horizons.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">There are many before</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">the sun rises.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>Perhaps my name goes</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">before me, my 'press', </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Empress of Contrails, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">peacocks in tow, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">trailing tallies, scores, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">arrivals, departures, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">ejaculations, rejections, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">all faces hands have held, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and yearning beyond possibility </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">hesitant dawn's mourning doves.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>Recall how hot winds blow loudly </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">as do I, billowing the tent. Men cry </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">mad for my return yet burns no desert </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">impervious to heat of all kinds, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">even human, excepting the heart, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">its capacities to startle, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">its dunes in vast stretches </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">beat, beat for what moonlight</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">can only suggest to scorpions </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">in silver shadows, pitying serpents </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">coiled smug in their ability</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">to shed skin, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">unlike veiled men.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>Hide what cannot be unwritten</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">though this trail of brocaded</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">skulls in time returns to sand.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">One cannot see this hand</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">waving its goodbyes, the other</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">concealing tint and quill.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I have written upon human</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">vellum through ages, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">through cycles unending</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and same. I cannot cease </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">doing what Heart heat</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">bids though I also</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">write upon darkness, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">eyes closed, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">tent flap opened</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">to all thirsters</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">who may, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">supplicant, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">come wandering in.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Warren+Falcon">Warren Falcon</a></strong></div>