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Once and Forever
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Love pulls the ghost into being,
the burnt-heart into the shade
and comforts and forgives and bears
all wounds with blinding devotion
to transform.
Love is the ledge
where the starling sits, praising
the twilight’s fall.
Love is the enemy unmasked
of its endless destruction, the topless
flowers that sound no blame into
the wind.
Love has no ruin, but hails and
hails to every heart,
delivering.
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© 1992 by Allison Grayhurst
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First published in “Raven Cage, Issue 26” September 2018
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hdv93t42aRcr5RMMyKCysJ3Fi08KwDgX/view
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