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Siren Song

if not for the shadow
be there a light?

where do poems come from
if not dreams remembered
from untamed floors of Jacob's sleep
swept and varnished
into hard gem-like memory

crystallized rock of ages
singing mermaid songs
gathering
into brilliant dust
to be seen

the price of comfort
a stone's throw into
circles of being
flowing
into the Sargasso Sea
like amazing grace

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No darlin' remind me, did you ever see Jacob's Ladder? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099871/

20 years already? I think I have a few books of poems just on mermaids, jacob ladder, dreams,
walls, floors, and the Sargasso Sea.

~A

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These actually make me think they would work so well as vignettes, each separate but part of a whole.

Chez
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