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Hand-in-Glove

A Villanelle

By Gerard DiLeoPublished 2 years ago 1 min read
All in the fit.

Preventing ease of donning hand-in-glove

We wear vambrace against the other's clutch

We just can't seem to reinsert our love

.

Oneupmanship is vying from thereof

To sink in claws into arm's length as such

Preventing ease of donning hand-in-glove

.

Two blinded birds who fall as starving doves

Aware, not, of love's mandate--selfless touch

We just can't seem to reinsert our love

.

There is, invented doubt, from thieves above

Who flock, conspiring, pilfering as much

Preventing ease of donning hand-in-glove

.

Defeathered birds will wander, pushed and shoved

In falcon's sight, we're doves in aimless rush

We just can't seem to reinsert our love

.

In ignorance of dangers fraught whereof

We pass in rote and hobble on our crutch

Preventing ease of donning hand-in-glove

We just can't seem to reinsert our love

Villanelle

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Gerard DiLeo

Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

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    Written by Gerard DiLeo