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Love’s Baptism · Ririro.com - Poetry

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Speaker 1: Love's baptism. I'm seated. I've stopped being theirs. The name
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Speaker 1: they dropped upon my face with water in the country
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Speaker 1: church is finished using now, and they can put it
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Speaker 1: with my dolls, my childhood, and the string of spools
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Speaker 1: I've finished threading too. Baptized before, without the choice, but
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Speaker 1: this time consciously, of grace unto supremest name, called to
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Speaker 1: my full, the crescent dropped. Existence's whole arc filled up
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Speaker 1: with one small diadem. My second rank, too small the first, crowned,
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Speaker 1: crowing on my father's breast, a half-unconscious queen, but this
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Speaker 1: time adequate, erect, with will to choose or to reject,
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Speaker 1: and I choose just a throne.