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Subject: Another Refuge
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Date: Wed, 25-May-83 15:34:06 EDT
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Here's another try at at-the-terminal composition.
I thought of a title, now let's think of a poem...


Another Refuge
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Childish,
my common pattern on each weary day
traces my path through aching mistakes
and tawny, windswept brows.
I yearn for misgivings
less poignant than my own,
for shores less battered by easily recognized,
unavoidable, passion-swept waves.
I live this lust.
Dark shadows already hover above the wind,
waiting for the moment of surrender, and I will fall,
fall, past the cliffs, the rocky places,
the slime-encrusted lowly peaks.
All this for a tanned feather-touch, and a smile.
In such storms, I seek another refuge.

Valerie Polichar, May 25, 1983

Could be worse, I guess...