For Lira

Buttery coos;
hello birdie.

A voice

in your rosy

breast fine-scale

woos the new

day to peer

over the horizon

and stay

fixed upon

dueling syrinxes

in disbelief of

competing radiation

touching bare

sky first.

I don't believe in heaven,

only your

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