Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Tango de la Materia, No. 62

The crosses evergreen

Barely sway

Against lavender night overcast

Messengered birds

The blackbirds of absent moons

La cruz negra

Smoldering cigarillos

In the silent compositional space

The silent enrichment of love aged like wine

In some foreign cellar

Now just bitter

Just dry enough

To give taste

To savor the gentle sweetness

So sudden to come on

The vistas open like the heavens’ canopy

Like the love we harbor home

The crosses’ treetop silent swans

In utterance the Godly tome

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