By Toklas
Date: 6 August 2000

Precarious

Poets like Lovers
tread the night softly
until the moon drowns
with a sigh.

They sing amid the blades of grass that bend
with the subtle touch of
a wordless breeze.

Caressing tendrils of the mind
with flashing fires
Until the soul is soothed by light.



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