After reading Jan Horner’s new book ref=dp_image_0
an Empress of all the streetlights
a cake and all its candles
Reading you
reading her or
what was left
Left me alighted (charged)
Electric was my answer
for what’s your favorite word
A silly game after a dinner long ago
but I can see how necessary
this word in your world when
plugging in to hers
It’s been ten years
from me to you
and a hundred
from you to her
Can one frail life run on dragon blood
bridge two run on words
Poems with questions are maddening
When the poet is the one with the pen
I left your city in the year of the dragon
anaemic and bloody at the same time
Battles lost, a war
called on lack of interest
rain atmostpheric disturbances
inclimate and too intimate to share
The last time I saw you was in a coffee shop
& it was raining out
See?
I think you cried
But not for me
Thankfully not
And I did too
I was saying good bye
But did not know it at the time
& it was really coming down
1 comment:
4th stanza is beautiful and heartbreaking at once. My favorite combination. Especially in the hands of a brilliant poet.
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