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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Crystal Ball (scratch no. 2)

The world crystallized.
Trees in snow and roads of salt
Air breathed clean, as before our fault.
Curve a round the lake
Gliding as in an old car
across that clean plate 
that stretches so far

Risk everything for it all
skate across that reservoir
at 90 mph in sky and ice
grin full of teeth rolling like dice.

The road ends with a red light.
Rocky tongues stop the barren white.
An old car can fly
if the drivers alive
and the world is
Crystallized.

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