When the silence came
Nobody was there,
Nobody to hear the silence
...
You were part of something
I never wanted,
Part of someone
I never met
...
Elephants in a tender embrace
Thoughts about the wild hills
That overlook the sunny plains.
...
All over France
There was a dream,
It started, like all dreams
From one man.
...
It is a ship that no longer answers,
No matter how much you call it,
No matter how much its name
Is never spoken but in grace.
...
At the grave of a child
You stop to read
The inscription,
And you cross your heart
...
I only knew it from hearsay
From what people told me
In the streets of broken bones.
...
You who was born silent
Spoke but once in a thousand years,
Saying that you were sorry
To crack the quiet reflections of the day.
...
Sleep is a saucer
Dawn is as clear
As water on the moon.
Only my eyes look down
...
Our lips in a liquid pilcher
Are so gently rolling
Sleep in a corner
Chiseling away the sharp walls
...
Sparkle of a sunny hairspray
On a dried body
Like a bowl of sugar
Warm white strands
...
I say Lord, don't miss me
In the shadow of the abbey,
My prayers for your ark,
My enchanted chapel of nuns;
...
Each year they were together,
They loved each other
More and more
Until one day they both began
...
Also near the end of its life:
The old blackbird looks up at me
As if to say
'Please do not hurt me.'
...
Moon-Lake
i
the moon
crying
moon-lake
ii
war
comes early
and silently...
iii
the baby
smiles
at the gun
aimed for
it's head
iv
the smile
lingers
as life
goes
silently
coldly
v
red moon
crying
moon-lake
of blood
vi
the killer
looks up at the moon
and says of it
'it's beautiful
tonight'
vii
war
comes early
and silently...
viii
the moon
moon-lake