Sunday, February 16, 2014

Explanatory Valentine

Maybe the dead are the weathers
of the world the great oceans
of clouds gathering or self-effacing
that have no fixed abode
 
the warmth against the cold
the dry against the moist
clashing in monumental battles
inserting their spears of light
 
or fluttering down in ashy flakes
stirring the volcanoes into rumbling
the earthquakes to answer back
but they might as well be using

sign language to try to warn us
that what we have the power to destroy
only they have the power to bring back

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