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The Defiling

Peter Magliocco

Rain revolves around me as I jog
Over the precipice of hillsides.
Somewhere in the German forests
I watch the depot workers arrive

Each morning to begin work,
Molding the natural edifice
Into a thousand barked sentinels
Of sap & shadow, still resilient

To their touch from rooted ages
Falling rain bleeds life into.
What my booted feet tramp over
In a luxury of motion we caress

Rich soil preparing its saturation,
For whatever humanity defiles,
The way I once did a lover’s skin
So endlessly fecund beneath me.

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