Baggage. Banal brigands,
turn-coats, stiletto to dirk
appraise warm flesh
upraised over a pie-shaped sky,
bread crust moon.
On oyster rock,
with grinning, red hibiscus,
jute and henequin
smother the lavender caress of stars.
A Thief's Notebook
Paul Cameron Brown
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