Hold my hand
the night is progressing.
The familiar sea
she now feels so bizarre.
Hold my hand
I can’t take on this world’s despair
or watch it fail as the night passes.
Perhaps if the night did not pass
if we could have the movements of the waves frozen
the moments of the people paused,
perhaps then the night would wait
(even just a while
even just for us).
Hold my hand
I know the atmosphere is heated
and our palms are melting into each other,
but you are all that remains
all that I recall.
Ghosts are occupying the ancient temples,
seemingly convenient, silent ghosts
the ones that do not disturb
just allow themselves to be
the breadth of the night transparently running though them
the flaming sun making their spaces of absence glow in agony;
can’t you see how in peace they show surrounded by the ruins?
Hold my hand
I am switching worlds this night
and before I do so
I am whispering to the sea all she’s been desperate to take from me.
Look at the sea
she will soon resume her familiar face
as mine will convert transparent;
look at the sea
and don’t look at me no more
but don’t let go of my hand.
Aegina,
July 2023.
Photo: installation in progress; Archaeological Museum of Aegina, 8 July 2023.
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