elliot r. wolfson
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on one foot dancing

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jittery repose


love be not
in time to be
rising like death
pregnant with hope
still-born
this day
of awakened slumber
love be not
to be in time
inscribed like dawn
in erasure of dusk
short-lived
this night
of jittery repose


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