AMATORITSERO EDE
For Nathalie Desverschere
Since you left silence has invaded my heart a stillness sits upon my bones
rust has set in where the joints were nimble and free those motes flying around the electric bulb now crowd around my mocked head like Christ's sad bitter crown
your departure has exacted a penalty the rabbits in my garden do not nibble and play
crouched in grave-like mounds they mourn the setting September sun grey patches of grief
dotting the happy green on a darkening day knowing that the rust of a cold cold winter is spreading etched already into this bed of grass
your going has exacted a riot the clock has stopped between my legs
it can no more mark the seconds and minutes of the breathing-in and the breathing-out of your thighs! knowing that the winter shall be an unbearable weight
come back or I 'll desverschere!
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