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MTC Cronin

Seven Mysterious Songs VII

Conduit

Seven Mysterious Songs VII

Conduit

Seven Mysterious Songs VII

Conduit

Water, water song
my body flows with
thoughts and blood

Remember the sickness
when my body would
allow not even water

I would die in a place
with no rustles
no movement

A bird would come
without moving
its wings

Perhaps in the
transubstantiation
of fire

There would be so much
life in it
Like a stream it could tell me

where it had been
What other kinds
of love it had known
Close

Seven Mysterious Songs VII

Conduit

Water, water song
my body flows with
thoughts and blood

Remember the sickness
when my body would
allow not even water

I would die in a place
with no rustles
no movement

A bird would come
without moving
its wings

Perhaps in the
transubstantiation
of fire

There would be so much
life in it
Like a stream it could tell me

where it had been
What other kinds
of love it had known

Seven Mysterious Songs VII

Conduit

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