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Tendrils of fire kissed hair
sparked under the dim lights
as the solitary wolf slumbered;
dreaming of bourbon,
ambery oak coating crystal.

Her lips were summer,
her eyes a breeze,
blowing over porcelain skin
long since made fair
under the kiss of stars
and the embrace of moonlight,
where she stood
a little too grand for the night
an ethereal intensity
like some lost Sargent portrait.
Beauty was the only thing simple about her,
for she was quite simply... Beautiful.
Her voice was a 1,000 years of happiness:
her tongue one precise moment of glory.

The sun melted into her skin like frost
on a late spring day,
as she napped like a cat;
feral in her beauty, wild in her heart.

She buried her dreams deep in the moonlight.
No one could steal them there,
but all her friends wondered
why she always lost herself in the stars.
She laughed a laugh
somnolent like honey
sweet like a robin
waiting for spring,
and it resounded
all through the valley
where the clouds
came to rest.

Wind whipped through
the long grass,
roaring like a lion,
rain following
in it's wake.

She reposed there,
under a blanket
of grey skies:
the curves of her
tanned body
ever strong and beautiful
against the windswept green.

I watched her there,
softly sleeping sweetly,
and I breathed her in
slowly savoring the ether.
Gray skies fill my window.
My heavy eyes open.
Those were the days
When you would hold me
-Wash away
All my doubts.
She stood out on the balcony:
I noticed for perhaps the first time
that she was made of certain things,
complicated things,
but then again
aren't complicated things
the best things,
and so it was that I watched her,
and whilst I watched
she began to transform.

Her brown hair turned hues;
fire and winter and lightning
all at once.
Her hands became starlight,
and in her eyes
I gazed galaxies yet unexplored.

And all at once
humanity came flooding back in.
I too
wanted to change
whatever it was
that I was changing into.
You saw my slumbering
washed out in the rains
wisps of hope veiled
dreams I couldn't remember

And I saw you too then
alone amongst the wreckage
the embers still smoldering
but with light in your eyes

Give me your hand now
let us turn south from this place
with warmth in your lungs

the thunder storm is breaking
and it doesn't matter anymore
that no one here knows my name
Under the garish Vermont moon
I cared nothing for truth
-yOURS or mine.

The snows had not yet melted:
the birds, still somewhere south.
Dawn was far away,
and as I held you close
the cold lost its bite.

And thus we stood -
next to the snowy field
that I always meant to explore,
and the world wasn't dark
for the stars in your eyes.
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