The Lightning Hunt
What does it feel like to be so wanted?
Wanted way down deep
To have a name imagine you
in all your liquidness
To have a name pocket you
a bit beyond those graves
To have a name center you
in the spinning wheels of Cecily
To have a monster without a hint
lift your flawless skin
It is a Netherworld
A curing thing
To survive so much
These perfect moments
I hunt like the swallows...
In stirs of black and gray
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 17, 2023
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| Scheme | XX AB AB AX XX XX XBB X |
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| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 394 |
| Words | 82 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 1 |
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