from “Selected Poems (1980-2000)”

/, Blesok no. 24/from “Selected Poems (1980-2000)”

from “Selected Poems (1980-2000)”

The stillness of ashes
A butterfly of reflection
The negative of time
Catafalque
Cloth
Lisbon
Misantrope
Studio
Galway

Always the message of water
leans on the banister of the voice

Seeks a grip on the ears
of a shifted century

Laughable the dried seaweed
on a head of seafoam

Carrying all findings to
the floodline, laughable

This catafalque of primal sorrow
this open wound scraped by tide after tide:

What you stare in wind, you wear out in time.

AuthorHans van de Waarsenburg
2018-08-21T17:23:40+00:00 January 1st, 2002|Categories: Poetry, Blesok no. 24|0 Comments