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for your beloved cat Gizmo † 09.2017

We saw it coming.
Or we didn't.
...

2.

It must have looked like war:
A burning plane falling
Out of the clear blue sky.
Inside the instruments screamed,
...

I

The dropping tied carried him
On a raft of tree trunks.
...

The night is approaching the frozen landscape;
Stars in their pale, agonizing colours,
The raw, wintry, fallen lake,
Pine trees in their hungry rows.
...

for Sandy

An oath,
world of stones, grass, birds,
...

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for your beloved cat Gizmo † 09.2017

We saw it coming.
Or we didn't.
Not now at least.
Nor any other week.

It was a pristine day.
A chosen one.
One like any other,
unforgettable.

It's not the first time,
you standing there,
enveloped by silence.
The dates bright markers,

a field with wild flowers,
Matabele violets
waving at something.
When we feel the wind

something is about to move,
to shift. Just a bit.
One world, then the other.
And the wind lies down.

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