AUGUST OBSESSIONS
by Philip Vassallo 


Naked, bound tightly to earth by your strands of hair
spit and sweat and tears and blood mix with a pitiful rain
we share each other's oxygen: panting, gasping, screaming
and then the eternal silence of the earth from whence we came.

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Copyright © 2003 by Philip Vassallo.

Phil Vassallo just completed his first collection of poems, "Like the Day I Was Born: 40 Poems of 40 Days," and a book "The Art of On-the-Job Writing." He is writing the screen version of his one-act play, "The Spelling Bee," for production later this year.

See what else we've published by Philip Vassallo.
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