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When I Met Eva, She Had Already Died

March 27, 2010

When I met Eva, it was after she had passed on from this world and gone into the next one.
A friend on Twitter wrote, “Rest in Peace Eva http://65redroses.livejournal.com – thank you for sharing your spirit of love & courage”. In less than 140 characters, I was motivated to see who Eva was.
Eva Markvoort [...]

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The God I Know

September 24, 2009

I sat on the back deck this evening, listening to the sounds of the crickets singing, feeling the soft breeze fragrant with the magnolia blossoms of the tree I planted a few years ago, seeing the stars peeking through wide holes in the drifting clouds, and seeing reflections of lightning way off in the distance… [...]

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September 23, 2009

The moon dropped her clothes into
the garden pond, and utterly enchanted with
love for her
I swallowed the sky.
It tasted like rain
and wine
and dandelions
and babies
and made my heart
smile like the sun.

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I Burn For You

September 22, 2009

I burn for you
On fire in sweetest agony and begging for mercy to be utterly consumed enraptured filled and the sum of my being rearranged flayed from my bones and molded under your hands against your flesh against mine around you around me to the peaks of triumphant cumulus clouds exploding in waves of fire [...]

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From The Garden

September 18, 2009

Dwelling in your high lonely house, can
you see me waving, waiting beneath your window?
Through the walls of your stout fortress,
can you hear me hailing you from the garden?
Who has imprisoned you? And whom do you
say has imprisoned you?
For the power and consent is in the saying of it!
The roses weep dewdrops for you.
The grass begs [...]

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