Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Silence Is the Gift of the Poet


The vaguely proud innuendos of your hair
Not to mention the snarky humility of your lips
The pause and sudden silence of your blue eyes
Heard from such a distance and snow in them
The bitterest of all victories apparent in your fingers
Such timorous and slightly tragic poems each one
Your sudden rain-creased words hating exiles
Detesting heart-thieves but taking their royalties
Nonetheless O how the excited shore slips
Sexily into the reluctant yet still hungry ocean
And it’s funny how beautiful Sibelius sounds
Here on the edge of this western sea so fresh
So utterly truthful as if pointlessly graceful birds
Refuse to fall into the sweet water of longing

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