There is always one sacred moment

when the night's ink black sky

allows some personal atonement

to my dull and once-blind eye:

a single white star's icy reign,

absent in the deepest dark,

until the second that my brain

is riven by its diamond spark.

That this sheer shining crystal blazed

while hidden from my careful scan 

can only leave me dumb, amazed

that the min...

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Tonight was full of pale questions

Sparkler trails

An acoustic strum

We lay on the bonnet of your car

Like they did in the eighties

And spoke to God

The heat of the engine

The chill of the night

The warmth of the memories

You had left the tape deck playing

The Kronos Quartet were on fine form

Endless symphonic epiphanies

You looked like a God...

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Lo and behold that feeling

once more has returned

To tease test and torment

dead past willfully spurned

From window shut forever

heard unmistakable creak

A portent of ensuing havoc

and destruction it’ll wreak

Dilemmas deemed sorted

in archives since then lost

Will augment latent agony

with much heftier paid cost

An arduous uphill dr...

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