Tracy Galloway

Words
Loose coins
Rattle and shift in my mind
When the change collected from waking hours
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I put you in my window box
Where my sun meets earth at dusk
And fair pistils of your hair
Unabated by the scorch
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The breeze of right intellect
Winds swiftly and blind
The capture
The conquer
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I cannot stay here
Where your ghosts are tossed about
In a sour sad array
Groaning blame
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I followed you there
To the rope's fraying end
In feather soled gait
Your ears didn't twitch
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When I am gone I pray you rest
Fold down the hearth you warmed in me
And sleep with purity and blush
You are dream and I am there
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I feel your heart with me
Through the tired hours
And over the rocky ground
As a worry stone I hold you
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I grew up today
In a moment I was both my former
And a step ahead
With lightened pause and grin
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Toss aside doubt
A moment
Close your eyes
And open mine in your mind
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Drown out the din
Your inhale
A sinewy pause
Between soft implications
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That human spirit revered
Souls of the palterers exalted as cures for confusion
But mired in twisted desires
deeds form dust
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If I've hands and prose
To soothe the tethered scars
A denouement
To calm your weathered wars
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Eclipse my reason
Silent undeniable
wanted burden
I lure it
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In the deep of the soul
In the root of the soil
You were always within
Waiting
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