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In the dawnlightIn the light shadows of pre-dawn
she whispered to me,the betaphenethylamine runs
in the half-shadows,through my blood, lacing it with fire
silver fading from her skin.and with silver,
In the down time of the day herand her body pressed to mine,
quiet sussurations reached my ears.I dreamed.
Like the mirrored scalesIn the fading light, I dreamed:
of fish just beneath theslipped on the silvered gauntlet
surface of the water, her wordspass into the Realm That Blazes,
flashed and slippednot with light but with potential.
into my consciousness.Ahhh...that eternal
I lay trapped in the half-light,moment of the numb shock as
her head against my chest,possibilties make
imprisoned by thethemselves known.
bright steel pointsCaught in the centered circle
of her words.as the too-bright light
sweeps down over the hills,
In the dawnlight, she whispered:Shielded by the looping arcs of data
It's not, as they say,(knight in shining armor?)
a place where and the bright feeling of ability
dreams become reality.familiar as a second skin...
On the contrary, reality is
stripped to its essence,In the shadows
like boiled-down saltwater thatI woke, I rose
leaves its coarse sediment infrom the depths of
the bottom of the pot.subconsciousness and
Here, more clearly here,betaphenethylamine fire,
as it is everywhere behindfrom my dream of cyberspace to
all its surfaces, reality isthe pulse and the blood.
a state of flux.She moved softly against
But it's purified, it'sme, blacker than the
existence soley on a plane ofsurrounding blackness, a
thought.shadow's shadow, and
(Body and spirit and soul areabove her the 
born of the mind, so you see, it'sbright steel points
all in your head).  It doesn'tof the memory of silver
transcend physicality, forbeta fire.  The pulse and the
transcendence physical self, likeblood stirred her and she
backwards ivy climbing down the raised her hand to the sky,
tree to its roots, the mind.fingers spread.  The cold
radiance of the stars
I tried to speaktraced her fingertips like
in the fading light, but shea line of beta flame through 
kissed me into silence,my body.  The rush 
held captive by the faded like the dawn,
bright steel glintsmy soul settling heavily
in her eyes.like tarnished lead,
imprisoned by the imperfect 
flesh.  In the darkness I


raised a silver-gauntleted
hand and pulled the stars
forward, closer, untill each
orbiting sphere resolved
into an option
doorway supported in the
fabric of cyberspace by
bright steel points.
The last thing I felt, as I
optioned out,
was the searing
caress of her fingertips
tracing my chest.
And then she
faded into the vanished light.
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