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Can I Stand In Your Light? MAG

December 25, 2015
By hannahfradkin GOLD, Missoula, Montana
hannahfradkin GOLD, Missoula, Montana
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Favorite Quote:
"There is something living in these lives I've not yet found." Julia Cohen


In the beginning, you are with me.
Origami hands and gutterball diversions.
An elastic ego, an idle id,
a coruscating consequence of winter.
In the beginning, you are near.
You are the rustle of the trees,
tangle of these tresses, teasing, tasting.
In the beginning, I am parasitic.
I am evidence of the bourgeois.
I am the clean-cut corner store,
cashier smiles and cashed-out keno.
In the beginning, I am trivial.
The belle of the ball is in the bathroom,
her prince is in the alley,
but isn’t that all too cliché to write?
In the beginning, there is something missing.
A moment lapsed into a dimension unknown.
A general lack of purity, piousness, prayer.
Pickpocket princesses, primordial castles.
In the beginning, there is nothing.
Thick and constellating shadows.
A winsome void and wishful muse.
Wizened psalms, wistful palms.
In the end, you are with me.
In the end, you are near.
I am parasitic, I am trivial.
There is something missing, and then
there is nothing.



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