night-cottage
Playing
like an African child in the red clay
Lilac fields
fill me up
it is not real
but it helps
and they are there
in the cottage
down the road
it's un-real
only in the grey folds
in the electro-stimuli
but they are there
i feel
it helps
angels
i sleep
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 238 |
| Words | 52 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 17 |
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