Undressing

###Undressing

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The encompassing gown

glints in lamp light.

The border gilded,

like sunlight clothes the earth.

Oh, you wear too much.

 

Or too little:

Blanched like the wintry mist

preening its own pallor.

Wildbeasts of imagination let free

to tame your grief.

 

I strip you nude,

for naked is never smothering.

New York Times Bestseller?

Well, I don't care.

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