Alexander Long Poems

1. 'O Holy Night'
I would give anything to understand why
You threw the leftover wedding invitations we made by hand
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The blood orange sky began to nestle
Its way inside your winter geraniums
Weeks ago, a gathering of hands
Hammered by light, water, and care disg
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Say I can't tell you yet.
Say it's a simple matter
Of tenses concatenating,
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Until you taste what failure is, you will
Never sing that pain style requires.
One dark morning earlier in this life,
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Like I've been saying
All along, I'm not sure
Where they've gone
Off to. Why can't I think
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for Ono No Komachi, 834-880 A. D.
Philadelphia, almost dawn. The Delaware stares
Back like lilies. In their ten thousand sets of eyes
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