Kasen Renga

Jamie Devitt & Jonah Malarsky
4-8-06

Fingertips in waiting
Yellow leaves, gold
Crushed up like debris

Falling to pieces
You and I

Find me in the grass
Impaled
Green, sleek blades

A ladybug climbs
To the peak of my nose

My head all empty lyrics
Such nonsense, prose
The sun and the moon

Wash each other
In silver lighting

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Illuminated skin
The curve of your back
Follows the moon

Lips will bathe
Corner-torn photographs

Young love tiptoes
Through old chests
And paper cranes

Paper wings engraved
A letter left behind

Fragile
Erratic
Cast away from reason

On the gentle autumn air
Let it disappear

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If meant to land
Beneath the moon
The shade of a naked tree

Leaves lost
To the end of a love story

Tear it up
Slim Paper cuts

Dripping years
And draining eyes

Evidence, pocketed
Crumpled up
Won’t blossom

Tear rolls down the oil canvas
An angel ages

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Medium lost
Distracted
Disturbed

Under glazed stares
Eternally judging

See me
In the ambush
Steal me

Veiled in red
Clandestine thoughts pursuing

Tear the fabric
Spilled ink
Patterns

Slithering and sliding
Clutching the reminiscence

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Fading to silence
Vulnerability
Closing in

Find me,
Don’t find me

Hidden between
Cotton sheets
Watching through closed eyes

Control me
Her fingers

Trace the moon
Aching to fly
I bind her

Pinned below
Shaking headboard

Forget
Dissolve
Retract

So close
I feel you miles away

This will all
Change
Next year

Until a new obsession
Spins me once again

Another voice
Around my ears
Blossoms form my throat

You watch me leave
Sewn to your heart

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Jamie Devitt & Jonah Malarsky