For Matilde Poems

Your body will betray you
as it has to
when love troubles
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You are silent, still water
without words
there is something fluid
incomplete, viscous
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You question me
as wreckage on the shore
what seas have you sailed
under Magellan's moon
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Sweet form
lie still
until I wake
the red tips
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Blue alleyways I loved
the way you approached
through the blue mist of conversations
tumbling blue from upstairs windows
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Just an image now
a parasite burrowing blind-eyed
through the slowly moving sap of hours
whereas once I was a question
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It has come thus
for I am an essential
to only this lonely life
I sit with storks
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It is so peaceful here
the untouched water
it's surface occasionally
broken
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I had wanted to speak to her
in all her languages
to learn all her colours
before dawn
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You are brighter than fresh snow
frost sparkles like silver water
on your skin
You are the sky, dark like a hammer
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