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Lights Off, Nude
Alison Eastley

   
 
  Liquid crystallizes into igneous rocks
until erosion
carries fragments, small monuments
depositing waves of salty sleep.
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  It's just another burial
pushed underneath Earth's crusted surface.
This eternal turning away
from external could be a result of pressure
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  or temperature expressing
temperamental cycles of change,
metamorphosis melting magmas
erupting when I ask, 'what position
is best for sleep?' and you reply,
on my side, lights off, nude'.
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  It makes me want to talk
about the flush of skin when opposites
attract, when there is a need
for deeper geology.
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Volume Four 
Issue Two: November 2003
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