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You Were There, and other poems - 8. And, lo –
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Poem No. 21
For a moment she was so lovely,
A form, a shape without time,
As she held her glass; a finger supporting
The tip-prone base, the other hand
Around the rim, and together, in grace,
Together, timelessly they brought
The rim to her lips.
I smiled to see her,
A form, not of my time,
A grace, not limited to my sight,
For others I feel have seen;
Others than I have watched,
That moment of beauty as
She drank her coffee.
Poem No. 22
Uneasy thought it is, ugliness in mankind,
Is what needs embracing by our understanding,
And the process – in the transformation of us –
To the courage needed to the task,
We slowly eke our way closer
To the time of taking
The ugliness as one of us –
To the courage of the love needed
To embrace the ugly to transform,
And, lo –
We are already transformed;
Metamorphosed
By the unlovely.
Poem No. 23
Something’s real in him –
say the imprint of his framer’s
liberating fingers –
Say the impression’s
like a master poet’s thought,
that Eros there lingered,
and lingers there still.
Sal
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