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Waking alone in a multitude of loves when morning's light / Surprised in the opening of her nightlong eyes / His golden yesterday asleep upon the iris / And this day's sun leapt up the sky out of her thighs
Was miraculous virginity old as loaves and fishes, / Though the moment of a miracle is unending lightning / And the shipyards of Galilee's footprints hide a navy of doves.
No longer will the vibrations of the sun desire on / Her deepsea pillow where once she married alone,
Her heart all ears and eyes, lips catching the avalanche / Of the golden ghost who ringed with his streams her mercury bone, / Who under the lids of her windows hoisted his golden luggage, / For a man sleeps where fire leapt down and she learns through his arm / That other sun, the jealous coursing of the unrivalled blood.