Thursday, 18 May 2023

#1233 - everything we touch

 



1233

18.v.23

4.138

everything we touch

poem at Câmplung, in Bukovina

 

becomes a kind of filth

 

we are the ones who believed ourselves other

talked ourselves into and out and on

 

smoke rises from us

hear the whistle blow

 

where we lie down, a stain

 

humans, I mean

 

we walk into things

you could easily stumble, go under

 

it must have been so with those before

 

once fruit fell at our feet

 

even in the snow, our leavings

 

an axe through the head of the forest

a cross saw, the body in half

 

that was us and is

 

the winecart comes

a moment’s joy

 

ladder – timber as clouds are

 

and the guns daguerreotype

what fine moustaches!

 

the lowing fields of dung

 

all our own work

 

he and he – all that was done

 

and she, like a shame indoors

ladling smoke

sadly gone

 

we make our iron tracks through the green

bare limbs

call ourselves winter

 

the house is a head

it won’t matter

how fast, how slow

 

anyone with sense would tremble

 

drunks shout up and down the train


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