portrait

in my heart you are clouded amber
rufous, obscure, and ancient
in my heart you are the glimmer of driftwood
beached beyond violence, smooth, structural,
essential as bone
in my heart you are reptile, still as stone
and vanishingly swift, snake supple
the long ripple of you
in my heart
yes, you are

-- GPL 1987 D. A. Clarke

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