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AT MIDNIGHT by KURT HEYNICKE

First Line: YOUR LOVE IS A WHITE DOE
Last Line: ABOVE THE ALTAR OF YOUR REVERENT SOUL.

Your love is a white doe
that flees into the midnight of my desire,
a tree of tears stands in the wood of my dreams youward,
now you are here—
The moon pours me fulfillment from the bowl of its splendor—
I love you,
you,
and place the scent of cloves before your chamber,
and throw narcissus over your bed.
I myself come, as silver as you,
and arch myself high,
a sacred grove
above the altar of your reverent soul.



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