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I.
She will be given
his veins in a knot; on a platter,
his crimson-apple heart.
Mad love's sacrifices.
II.
Her eyes:
closed books.
He tried to keep busy.
III.
Perhaps she was afraid of love.
She sat in a ruined palace
beautiful as a dove.
Its shadow-shapes might
have been anything.
He has sent her a note from a distance.