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Volume 1, 2001

Morphine Dreams

Robertina K. Szolarova

Lightly they drift
""around me
Words in violet hues
""and restless shapes
""with silver edges
descending on the sheets
And never have I seen
""sounds like these
fireflies with antique voices
melt through my frozen layers
Each glowing ember
""sinks
""into what is left of me
Ignites a slow cold burning
somewhere in the center
""of what is left to me
And nothing
""not a thing
remains untold
All these pages
""are read
and my hands have folded them
into the shapes of birds
""to feed the searching flames
to see once more
the dance of wings upon the wall

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