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"... brevity is the soul of wit ..."
- William Shakespeare

Karen McCarthy


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Portraits of Lovers Never Loved IX

he offered
jesus with no magdalen
to wash his own feet
flesh and sin and what sin
after, sweating and same-scented,
i mention an old childhood dream
when faith was still possible

at nine chastity means nothing

i'm leaning to walk again
on unclean feet