3,000 Miles
Somewhere between the icicles and the junipers
I fit in
Meeting my body each day
With honeysuckle
Mary
and Mother of Pearl
Harvesting
These scratching bitter lands
Getting to my ancestry
By pushing back the earth
How I'd love to be the Emperor's butterfly
So pretty and so simply soft
Falling back into the forgiving years
The sweetness and mourning still wait
Eager to reoccupy
My every solstice breath
Committing them all to memory
So crowded with all of my revisiting
The flawlessness
Trying to get back some kind of unselfish photograph
A woman's untainted worth
But every single time I try
I simply disappear...
Only three thousand miles between Islamadora and Point Hope
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | AX XXBX CXBD EXXX EX BCA XD EX X |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 653 |
Words | 114 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 4, 2, 3, 2, 2, 1 |
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