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Listening to Orpheus

by Patricia Ann Treat

When the god breathes,
I want to touch his chest, find the ripple in it.
I want to stand in the wind that he takes in and lets
out again,
to hear it put to music.
I would caress the shape of his lyre to hear
Orpheus' echo
sing to my split self.

 

 

 

 

 

 


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