Painlessly Love Damaged

Painlessly love damaged the flesh

Something like a blade

Loaded amongst

High feverish efforts

Life narcotically

Unloosed and sacrificed

Author's Notes/Comments: 

This is a found poem from p. 133 of Thomas Keneally's The Woman of the Inner Sea.  MLA citation:

Keneally, Thomas. Woman of the Inner Sea. New York: Plume, 1994. 133.

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