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haley feDor<br />
Le Maître Rouge<br />
Gilded, noble Phoenix<br />
with plumage just like coals,<br />
you are hot and scarlet, yet<br />
bound to bones.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is a reek of smoke and ash,<br />
left from your rebirth.<br />
I wonder if I have the strength<br />
to rise up from the gray ash<br />
of past destructions.<br />
You leave a blackened trail for all to see.<br />
A fleeting courtesan of affection,<br />
your lilting words are stuffed with grace.<br />
I see a hammer and anvil in your eyes—<br />
cherry red,<br />
to make and un-make as you see fit.<br />
All will quiver in your wake.<br />
A drunken cadence rises,<br />
tribute to your fierce, stubborn pride.<br />
You blaze a nearer, smoking sun,<br />
that burns everything it touches—even me.<br />
I think I should have loved you, before<br />
you burned the temple I had built—<br />
to worship you.<br />
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