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Kore for Betsy no one wears yellow like you, excessive and radiant storehouse of sun, skin smooth as fruit but thin, leaking light. (i am climbing toward you out of the hidden.) no one shines like you, so that even your lashes flicker light, amber over blue (amba, amorous Demeter, you with the fire in your hand, i am coming to you). no one my tongue burrows in, whose wild flesh opens wet, tongue seeks its nest, amative and nurturing (here i am you) lips work towards undoing (dhei, female, sucking and suckling, fecund) spurt / spirit opening in the dark of earth, yu! cry jubilant excess, your fruiting body bloom we issue into the light of, sweet, successive flesh … The Poetry of Daphne Marlatt / 25 ...

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