prayers
raze i used to talk to god
on the cold concrete floors
of rooms like these,
waiting for the first blush
of unschooled ardency
to heat my fleeting house,
before i knew love
in all its awful beauty.

i strained to hear her
whisper something sweet
in my nearest ear.

she never said a word.
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