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Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.

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Aberjhani
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: July 8
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Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks. The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother’s milk for the very first time. --from poem Blood and Blossoms
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Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.
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Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love's liquid sigh.
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