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Port of Souls: Part 4

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May 14, 2026
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Port of Souls: Part 4

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

Their eyes met, he and she, who had a love,
Of a kind, for some years, and then embers
Of what had been burnt smouldering under
That flaked facade which covered them later,
Like a healing skin, or weathered scar-patch.
There imploring he saw in what watched him,
Invo…

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