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Thursday, February 01, 2024

Once (1976) Melanie Bloodgood

 One moment, once,


in a sun-buzzed room


all the views were delightful.


I and Time were a great balloon


in touch with the walls about us.


Then as if someone had been excused


from a chambered violin's play,


sound abruptly fountained up,


more abrupt yet was snipped away.


Suddenly, too, a light shaft,


crazy as an accident,


rushed down its silk in a slanted stream


to live and breathe on my white sheets


in a pool of moired patterns.


Hands to the birth of a secret universe


I was once one day. 








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