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Sleeping through the eclipse

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Sleeping through the eclipse

All enshrouded mind blocked by the body’s
Shadow. By the tired turn of blood longings.

But sleep, flesh. The skein of spheres
Writhes into night’s wormed wood one more knot.

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This entry was posted in Poetry and tagged 8, blood moon, eclipse, sleep on July 31, 2018 by Jeff Schwaner.

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St Brigid Press July 31, 2018 at 10:04 pm

WHEW. AWESOME.

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