- passions can only be written about at their end -
Warm nights
drips of your
drink
resting on your
lips
I was biting
mine.
Warm bodies
but separate
I couldn’t tell
the stars’ signs.
What journey was
that
away from the
North
brought me to
you
so fragile?
Quiet talks
I was peeking
into your arms
what and who
they were holding
someone but me.
Warm nights
I mostly recall
your drink
the temperature
of my body
fighting against
unfamiliar conditions.
Tabloid magazines
the news
documentaries;
I never got to cite to you…
“And it happens that tonight is a night picked from
a hundred and one
other possible nights, each spinning lost between
the stars in the silence from the closing mouths of kisses and answers and the
lover’s tongue
to the morning that in the end is well known to always
come.”
*
Waves by the sea
salt and
stardust
each move of
your fingers on me
was a breeze
from an ocean afar.
You mentioned
sand along my hair
pebbles across
my body
and as the night
passed
you said they
reminded you of a storm.
Your hands
and mine
performing such
a dance
of prudence and
pride.
Hair brighter
yet shorter
what about
the taste of your drink
ever-present on
my lips
a flying moment
I stole from you away?
31
October 2017,
Samothraki.
* A.F. Harrold, And Looking Back (third stanza).
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