VII: Samba Pa Ti
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Embrace II / Leslie Marcus
The Milky Way shifts
left to right
as it always does
At least one star falls
to leave the herd
during this trembling
You love watching
the night sky
"alive in the dark"
I fear patterns
whose aftermaths
involve "sweet partings"
But your first kiss
reached for a scar
puckering atop a knuckle
You could have lingered
only on the sweet wine
sweetening my sweet lips
My guitar hopes for
dawn arriving without
glass goblets shattering
Teach me of Andalusia
where duende is to "live
life as if dreaming"
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