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AN ARGUMENT

"Go from me then, if you must,
and seek the sullen paths of men.
I know you fear your own awakening lust
that you first felt full moving, when
God's light in me at first revealed
all that sanctity in you had sealed."

So said Lilly...

But Pio, swaggering like a dancing bear
around the fire in the flickering light,
smiled here, and stopped there to glare
at Lilly's hawk, which circled in the night.
He lit his pipe, "I'll stay," he slowly said,
"Till heaven comes a blazing in my head
and casts me rolling like a dog in dew —
and running in the forest winds with you."


Poem © Blake Steele 1992
Image © Blake Steele 2010
May be copied freely for non commerical use only