Galatea

communication, dream, god, love, metaphor, obsessions, poetry, romance

He shapes her to his mind:
a mind to mind entwines
before he approaches the cool
beauty of the marble skin.
She lives beneath his touch;
each stroke brings her forth
into herself:  this life to come
awaits but on a kiss.
(July 2012)

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I am a poet and a teacher living in central Texas. I attended The University of Texas at Austin, and Middlebury College's Breadloaf School of English.

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