| Lorelei (løre-lî, lore-) noun |
| A siren of Germanic legend whose singing lures sailors to shipwreck. |
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| Lorelei recalled | |
| Serene siren, | |
| my fellow traveler, | |
| slightly unwilling argonaut-friend: | |
| Our listing ship sails | |
| to exotic nights spent abroad, | |
| the shared shock, recalling | |
| irons and stoves | |
| left burning back home; | |
| cheek-to-warm-cheek's ginger foxtrot | |
| to lilting empathy's strains | |
| trying hard to miss our feet, | |
| occasionally missing the floor; | |
| blissfully bearing ourselves | |
| gifts of confusion, | |
| running small squeaking thoughts off the rails; | |
| two gentle feared ships | |
| ambling through bus depots, lost, | |
| snagging innocent icebergs | |
| on soft tangled tethers. | |
| © Jon Bohrn (1999) | |
| Lorelei (løre-lî, lore-) noun |
| A siren of Germanic legend whose singing lures sailors to shipwreck. |
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