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OOZE, by                    
First Line: : to flow or leak out slowly


: to flow or leak out slowly,
to disappear or ebb, like time,
or love, or music from
a hidden box whose source
you'll never find, or secrets
slowly lost so that in time they're
not secrets anymore, but slime,
the stuff that covers everything
at last, the bog of feelings bagged
like eggs, the complex mucus,
the visceral fecund night ragged
as a flag -- breaking and unbreaking --
from which we came.

Copyright © Stan Sanvel Rubin.






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