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Old Adam’s Kiss

Paul J. Ryan

What shadow does
your body harbor?
What beast it hides?
What mover of the darkness beats
under the folds of your clothes?
What worm squirms between your breasts?
What snake is that you’re shaking from your cuffs?
What bird who squawks and squawks
that when I open your lapels has flown?

And are you with me now?

Now when you’ve nothing
but what’s behind you?

Nothing even if I hold your hands
and keep you from talking with my mouth?

Is there nothing between us now
but a single feather from your black wings?

Is that enough?



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