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Susan K. Rowse

Stand Back Boys This Heart is Taken

You see her heart is taken...all dressed and shaken
Like warm bread it rises...yeast of passion flying
Breezes aromatic...cutting through life's static
It catches tails of comets...booming sounds atomic
Then silently it whispers as monks among their vespers
Chanting beats that cadence never skirting this fence
Part of living inside her...love is humming...doesn't hide
Better love is kept because its stronger than it ever was
Sunbeams shine and cut through meadows
Skirting grays and lighting shadows
Her heart is full and seems to be
Brimming over with amorous seas
Keeping rhythms waking, shaken
Stand back boys her heart is taken.