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Poetry Runner-up 2007:

"Cavatina" was originally published by Clean Sheets Magazine.


Cavatina

   by Uche Nduka


To put aside this coffee
And go to
The waterline where
Your hips give in
To starlight.

To cross a shadow as it crosses you.

You: as open as summer.



©2007 by Uche Nduka

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Rauxa: n.
of Catalan origin

unbridled emotion and passion; wild spontaneity; overflowing creativity and capacity for action








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