Muse

Go. I cannot bear
To look at you,
So perfect I must throw
The book at you.
 
Stay. I do not dare
To berate you,
Couched, naked, free, the way
I create you.
(Sebastian Barker)

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Strike The Lovely Dumb

Strike the lovely dumb, be curt with praise.
This lady is no incident so vain.
She wears the long-time miracle, she stays,
For in my heart I feel dissolving pain.
 
Wonders of love, raptures of love, dear God,
Queue at the shop where I barter words for her;
For she, Christ’s child, has brains no brain has made
Approving commerce Godly words [...]

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