Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Crash, breaking surf, blow oh unfathomable Comments

Rating: 4.5

Crash, breaking surf, blow oh unfathomable
wind and smooth out for me the sound of

so many words, so much empty talk that
is lodged in my head, a dictatorship

of tonalities, intonations, shreds of language
spoken by others, enough to drive a person crazy

echoing, all of them, their graffiti
on the walls of my soul, a punishment from

god, a cell on death row, in which I count
the hours I still have to go, in that bare

room and the laughing machine is
always on - oh breaking surf,

waves, wash if possible pound
this beach clean, so that what can remain

will be the white sand receptive again
in which sun or water, shadow-clouds or

a swooping down wind can write
its same always other secret
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Elly de Waard
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