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Sculptor's Midnight | Poem

 
 

Sculptor's Midnight

 

Palpability 

Rises from 

Uncarven marble: 

A rain of odalisques 

Whispers rebellion 

Against the chisel. 

Scriabin sighs 

And reaches 

For the clay again, 

Essaying a tourmaline 

Left. 
 
 

- David W. Mitchell
 

to David   /  to Moongate

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