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Afternoon Light
I watch you undress
as afternoon light
touches your shoulders.
Skin on skin,
a sunbeam pierces the crystal in
in the window
that looks out
onto the sea
and explodes into colour.
The village sleeps.
a dog barks,
a cock crows out of time.