#563 - new leaf, old leaf

18.vii.21

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new leaf old leaf

 

dawn’s headlights

and now no turning

 

woken with the words

(some will say given

I will say earned)

 

though while I was gone

the planet did

 

bronze effigy bright

worn from time

 

it’s a new world every day

and self fresh coined

 

unlike these words

pick up where found

passed breath to breath –

kind of resuscitation

 

certain things

the authorities

have confiscated at the border

 

Lethe-lamps, dutiable items

 

you can see where the idea is from

 

I may not always come into the light

but I know that I will go back

 

ask who was that one yesterday

lay on the bed till I rose

left this last impression

on which I improvise

 

 

demandu, kiu estis tiu hieraŭ

kuŝu sur la lito ĝis mi leviĝos

lasis ĉi tiun lastan impreson

sur kiu mi improvizas