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THE SPARROWS WE WEEP WE SEE by JANE MILLER

First Line: DRIVING FOR HOURS
Last Line: THE PARTINGS WE CALL JOY.

Driving for hours
and still morning: the princess's white undergarments!
It seems we were the only ______________.
Imperceptible is the soul
coming to request,
like a lover
in you as if to find the smallest star
for which the constellation is named:

Lorca somewhere else,
sun going-down-like
on a woman rolling
my eyes back, fucked
by tongue,
the secret-myself-away, though there are names for it
and tensions turn that way.
Having fallen, not in English, no,
the petals tear, the sands, uncomfortable, tilt,
and the scents and dusts burn unnoticed.
Burn.

Black sun, yellow rocks, sand, no,
black rocks, sun, yellow sand...
strange, monumental,
a day of
look, trees, clouds, sky.
Whitecaps stop 200 yards out
and apron a sound like the lagoon opposite,
its slavish rocks holding unsteadily,
doing their jobs poorly and giddy besides....
One sail, birds soaring of a piece,
how many birds?
thank yous,
the partings we call joy.



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