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Poem

Ian Pindar

Ashes

Ashes

Ashes

are bodies in disguise
mixing sighs and
tears in a lost garden.

An air of importance
permeates these
cosmonauts of
compost,

which the pomp of sky and stars
ignores.

Foolish men
inhabit their bodies like
metaphors.
Close

Ashes

are bodies in disguise
mixing sighs and
tears in a lost garden.

An air of importance
permeates these
cosmonauts of
compost,

which the pomp of sky and stars
ignores.

Foolish men
inhabit their bodies like
metaphors.

Ashes

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