A Premonition Comments

The woman in the black gown comes carrying the night
her darting, secretive glance exhausts me
suddenly I remember this is the season all fish die
and all roads pass through the traces of birds in flight
Like a corpse, the mountain peak is dragged off in the darkness
the heartbeat of a shrub nearby can be heard faintly
giant birds look down on me from the sky
with human eyes
all winter a consciousness rises and falls, cruel and male
in a savage, unheard-of weather
I've kept an unusual calm throughout
as if blind, and so I see night in the day
a childlike frankness, my finger prints
can provide me no more sorrow
Footsteps! a sound getting older
dreams appear to know something of this, in my own eyes
I saw a block of time that had forgotten to flower
weigh down on the dusk
Fresh moss in their mouths, the meaning they besought
pours knowing smiles back into the breast
the night convulses, or doesn't, like a cough
choked back in the throat, I've already quit this dead-end hole
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