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By Jack Joseph Smith
A Molly Love, My Only Sister
Kissed clear Sailor when wandering shell back has gone
From your feet you desired me not
Until memory suggested the world as swelled,
with where we stood when a whole kitchen wondered why
Sweet and down along the way was your glance;
and then as a dry lawn through gardens,
your seriousness went dreary,
all for a hallway of thought
Loving you in the way of in love was not a plan,
so it was just to high for following
Yet scared, and no good at it,
trying made me happy
Yes a wounded fox from the hunt;
a wild wolf finally under siege
Only falling would let me climb to your embrace
Different than sister; no chalking this one off,
upright we will be there, at a point where we
did not take off, but stayed, kept with our hands
A newness beyond all the fashions of laughter we know
We will never languish our places, our steps, our songs,
or our dreams of direction
And so tiny you have it all my lady
For though I have wished for sin, and sorrow too
Still I have seen your eyes of joy...