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heads have ceilings

heads have ceilings that look up
to their own Sistine Chapels
filling the walls and floors with furniture
in small patterns of space
never is a skull enclosed in wordless air
a splinter in the eye beside scaffolds
and paintings
a treaure in the vaults of steel
and one finger is left to touch God.


— Orphani, Jul 10, 2010

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Seren

15 years 11 months ago

Dearest B

Touching on the profound if one cares to look hard enough ;) love and hugs JayCee x x x (Quote~~"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. "--Charles Baudelaire)