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Hey, I did it again! I'm going to have "Warp and Weft" in the CAPS 25th Anniversary anthology!

Warp and Weft

Riot and groan in the heat,

Love, love the brassy impulse

To break the motherskin,

To stretch wet in the humid dark,

Allowing the warp and weft of recollection

To part, and to let your body speak again.

There is nothing without this.

Take what you will, but there is nothing without

This scraping reach, this godless ecstasy.

Rise and fall, feast and fast,

Swallow the cool and calling waters

If that is what you want.

If that is what you want,

Part your tender lips on the sea,

Make romance of sacrifice,

And praise the empty gestures

Of blueboned deprivation.

Starve if you want to, but do not forget

There is nothing

Without your wild flame,

Crowding out from its calyx

To burn a passing prayer

On the walls of eternity.

Part the warp and weft of recollection,

Of fear and artifice,

And let your body bloom again.

For more, click through to see "Banquet Piece" in the New Milford Journal.

Published again!