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In Agape, Ivanovo
To this new threshold
you arrived trembling-
placing in my cupped hands
this bit of you
still compact from your hot protective grasp
and turning
left me watching
your trust settle-
yielding-
into my cradling hands
fearing that I would fail
to keep you safe
but somehow let
softened sand gently sift
between my fingers.
Deirdre Cruickshank
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