Shadow of Myself

This is one of the collections of poems within the anthology.

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Sea-Me

Our shadows are taller than ourselves.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Night Light

Rose-warm light spreads

Unbounded

Over sea, sky, land.

Your eyes find me

Unclothed

Mouth on mouth

Ranging

Fingers in petal softness

Fire desire.

Fragment

Like a shell

On the beach

I enclosed

My self

Isolate

Whole

Contained

But you searched

Me out

Uncovered

Laid me bare

In love

Complex

A part.

Dream on

Rapt

In your soft

Perfumed presence,

My senses

Sleep,

Breathing in

The dream

Of your oneness

With me,

But still

You walk

Away.