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Paul D’Agostino / Roberto Pazzi
The Rooms
So many slumbers consumed
in these rooms…
The rooms themselves will go away
one day, and others shall replace them,
but these dreams will remain withal.
From THE GRAVITY OF BODIES, 1998
Silence
Holy, holy, holy is the silence
love purified three times through
by fire and by wind,
fruit of the desert
ripened in the darkness
of clasped hands in search of dawn.
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