Love as a Dance & Blue Straggler
by Amanda Unger
Love as a Dance
We
Are gluttonous
Consuming stares and gossip
Our stomachs bulging with your oppression
We
Morphed curiosity into a dance
We
Walk with stones in our heart the weight of which is lifted
When we hold each other across the room.
Blue Straggler
Today the lighthouse of Alexandria fell
the remnants constructed a citadel
To explode inward and set the world ablaze Blue straggler how many
light years are we away from our thousands of years of praise
When we met they discovered Earendel
They completely missed us with their magnified gaze
Ichthyocentaurs led Aphrodite from the sea
From winter to winter I have spent with she
Nautical guide no astronaut would relinquish
Today the lighthouse will not extinguish
When I sail the sea of dream, I dream of thee
And of love and life I cannot distinguish
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