Call Me Not Back

call me not back thru loveless dirt-strewn streets thru eddying pools of summer want i go not that way again/ call me not back with eyes diamond-glazed by silent hallway lusts with dark pubic pressures on sheets of fire with the tender heat of small rose-nippled breasts i go not that way again/ for now is winter and i have seen blind children weep on bruised knees around a frozen pond/ with this sight my heart and feet are ice and i can go not that way again/

Nelson Barr
SourceLicence:Public domain (US, no notice)

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