the grass moves like the eyelashes of virgins under water



the grass moves like the eyelashes of virgins under water

touches people floating low above the ground
like naughty ghosts

the voices of teenagers bear fruit in the twilight

in everything the stars do not do there is some detachment

if you're lucky
you will see a bat listed in the red book
or a woman who came to the store in a dressing gown

it can be seen on the streetsso independent cinema
that its only viewer is your bone marrow
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Submitted by Sviatoslav on March 28, 2023

Modified on March 28, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X XX X X XXX XX
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 439
Words 87
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 2, 1, 1, 3, 2

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