Wednesday, February 25, 2015

O Mouths of Blossoming, Mouths of Transfiguration


And to have all these words as they think
Nothing of grief asking only for calm or lust
Useless in this village of impotent swagger
This town washed by the smooth waves
Of a filthy river this burg that fears night’s dark
Breath here where I am nothing more than
A faint noise rustling deep in a mirror-well
Into which you might look from a distant
Window in a city of quartz where yellow cats
Follow one another down otherwise empty
Sidewalks where from eucalyptus trees birds
Are charmed by your voice where there is
Fine-weather rain that brings joy and where
I could find what I write in what I love

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