a lovely scent a lovely sentiment
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		you are turning my way and i am
		glowing.  there is a great grace
		in your gradual allowances.
		
		a leaf turning a leaf falling
		a leaf twisting away
		first a flash of reddish gold
		then of fuzzy underside

		a scent a glint a windfall of detail
		the warming -- it spirals slowly at first
		calmly at first -- not calm anymore

		desire reignites
		this page is torn -- an injured calligraphy
		cursive in knotting pain -- scatters shadows
		a wobbly flame
		and only a part remains -- but what a fragrant fragment:

		to be held
		to be held well
		mmmmm...
		to be well again
		to be continued

			Marek Lugowski
			25 September 1999
			Chicago, Illinois