Fugue 23 - Spring 2002 (No. 23)

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Andrea Dmgay

Fall en When she sleeps she undrearns water, violet green and moss She cannot be unbeautiful although her hands are ribbon tied and crossed When she was old, her white dress fell unlaced and chill bare flesh retum ed her young and colorless to buffalo and mountainside, her ginger sunset pale so late so late, so sleep and holy floating cautions peace against the dark, dark night She is not here, she walks through halos saved by golden halos, ripples on the water surround her body, halos She is not saved, she is not strong, in sleep, so late, so peace and pale, undrearning lavender and falling scents, uncrossed, untied and bound She white and old, now young, now w1believing, answer words her whiteness pales her halo loosens pale and loosened, fallen petals float inside.

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