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Monsieur Diable

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Published: Jun 8, 2012

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^{monsieur diable, mon seul amour
who comes to me with kindness
whom I cannot repay

monsieur diable!
my brilliant illness!
my shimmering demise!
my bones are freezing diamonds
like the midnight desert stones of Arabia
the wire grass of frigid Russia that
snap at a child's touch
winter fields

monsieur diable, I am weak
beyond weakness
I am a soundless mourning dove
I am the weeping rain
my roars turn to smoke against my teeth
like starving hands that reach at such
pregnant nothingness through innocent bars
innocence presumed

monsieur diable,
you have mapped me with scars
that bloom like lilies
that unfold like winged petals under
the pouting kiss of the moon
the sorrowful catchfly of my skin

monsieur diable, my sweet
my cherry thing
my sharpened stem}