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Sonnet XXXIV (You are the daughter of the sea)

You are the daughter of the sea, oregano's first cousin.Swimmer, your body is pure as the water;cook, your blood is…

3 weeks ago

Sonnet XI

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.Bread does not nourish me, dawn…

3 weeks ago

Sonnet LXXXI

And now you're mine. Rest with your dream in my dream.Love and pain and work should all sleep, now.The night…

3 weeks ago

Sonata

Neither the heart cut by a piece of glassin a wasteland of thornsnor the atrocious waters seen in the cornersof…

4 weeks ago

Poetry

And it was at that age ... Poetry arrivedin search of me. I don't know, I don't know whereit came…

4 weeks ago

Ode to the Book

When I close a bookI open life.I hearfaltering criesamong harbours.Copper ignotsslide down sand-pitsto Tocopilla.Night time.Among the islandsour oceanthrobs with fish,touches…

4 weeks ago

Ode to Sadness

Sadness, scarabwith seven crippled feet,spiderweb egg,scramble-brained rat,bitch's skeleton:No entry here.Don't come in.Go away.Go backsouth with your umbrella,go backnorth with your…

4 weeks ago

Ode to Bird Watching

NowLet's look for birds!The tall iron branchesin the forest,The densefertility on the ground.The worldis wet.A dewdrop or raindropshines,a diminutive staramong…

4 weeks ago

Naked, You Are As

Naked, you are simple as one of your hands,Smooth, earthy, small, transparent, round:You have moonlines, applepathways:Naked, you are slender as…

4 weeks ago

Love~

Because of you, in gardens of blossomingFlowers I ache from the perfumes of spring.I have forgotten your face, I no…

4 weeks ago