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Fertile Crescent
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for Jade
Between us the bed sheet falls away.
We are exposed in blue moonlight.
Sleepless, I study her shadows, highlights.
This is the land God teases people with:
rich soil of valleys;
pinnacles to receive His few words;
the gift of long growing seasons.
Running a finger over the landscape,
I dream a terrible storm,
one to flood the lowlands,
fill the lakes and swell the rivers.
I am a devil in the desert
tempting prophets to leave their angels,
sway as wheat in her breath.
Her slumber is too perfect,
and my disturbances become faint ghosts
hidden in the bellows of wind,
exiled to the corner of a darkened eye.
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Writer
Bio
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J.P. Dancing Bear's poems have been published in hundreds of journals, including Ellipsis, Clackamas Literary Review, Rattle, Potpourri, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Mid-American Poetry Review, and Mochila Review. He is editor in chief of The DMQ Review and host of "Out of Our Minds," a weekly poetry program aired on public radio station KKUP and the internet.
dbear@value.net
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