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Deborah Ager - Night: San Francisco

2014-11-07 14 Dailymotion

Rain drenches the patio stones. <br />All night was spent waiting <br />for an earthquake, and instead <br /> <br />water stains sand with its pink foam. <br />Yesterday's steps fill in with gray crabs. <br />Baritone of a fog horn. A misty light <br /> <br />warns tankers, which block the green <br />after-sunset flash. My lover's voice calls <br />to others in his restless sleep. <br /> <br />The venetian blinds slice streetlights, <br />light coils around my waist and my lover's neck, <br />dividing him into hundredths. <br /> <br />Would these fractions make me happier? <br />My hands twist into a crocodile. <br />My index finger the tooth that bites <br /> <br />Gauguin's Tahiti. My thumb is the head feather <br />of a California quail crying chi-ca-go. <br />Night barely continues. Is this the building <br /> <br />staying still? Is this hand the scorpion <br />that will do us in? A few of Irving Street's <br />sycamores will blue the air come morning.<br /><br />Deborah Ager<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/night-san-francisco/

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