Your face lapses in obscurity
an oblivion as soft as the cigar’s smoke surrounding me.
Even when I let myself fall
the memories dive deeper
and I am running out of oxygen
inescapably returning to the shore.
All the castles I’ve climbed to
raise their walls
keeping me inside
a distance expanding each time
before
once again
I fall.
I trace your movements on the pebbles
as the sea grows
deeper and darker,
and the more I become her
the less I have the words to write
or the memories to recall.
Summer ends leave me bare of words
or even of feelings
for any language I try to write in
fails
repeatedly
to reach you.
All
but a castle’s distant view
eventually escapes me –
like words
once said
and instantly forgotten.
August 2020,
Samothraki.
Photograph: the castle of Samothraki – moon over the southern tower; 25 Aug. 2020.
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