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Starfish Among rivers of morning stars I open to the night your zeal awakens in lighted bedsheets I swim through the air up to a ceiling of cat-eyed apples up there where the white horse grazes I swim through the sky search for you in a yellow cloud of fish and guitars I swim in a desert of rain where sunset takes you further away hour after hour I swim in the water of your eyes two shadows lengthen and transfigure my night I awaken in phosphorescence my feet burn on the sands of day