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From: suki@reed.UUCP (Monica Nosek)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: Moths
Message-ID: <1049@reed.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 05:28:18 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  5 05:28:18 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 8-Mar-85 02:47:30 EST
Reply-To: suki@reed.UUCP (Monica Nosek)
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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maybe
just maybe
and with all my heart
I love you

and at that you turn
and walk away.
	one salt tear slides down my face
	and dries in a saline web
	the spider of despair has spun
		he won't be held,
		my moth, by web
		or promise
	he walks the coals
	and flies through fire
	seeking flame
be wary, moth,
of candles;
they burn bright
and hot.

				-monica