into the strenuous briefness | |
Life: | |
handorgans and April | |
darkness, friends | |
5 |
i charge laughing. |
Into the hair-thin tints | |
of yellow dawn, | |
into the women-coloured twilight | |
i smilingly | |
10 |
glide. I |
into the big vermillion departure | |
swim, sayingly; | |
(Do you think? ) the | |
i do, world | |
15 |
is probably made |
of roses & hello: | |
(of solongs and, ashes) |
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