2021-11-11

 
--Mark Strand

.........1
At the edge
of the body’s night
ten moons are rising. 

.........2
A scar remembers the wound.
The wound remembers the pain.
Once more you are crying. 

.........3
When we walk in the sun
our shadows are like barges of silence. 

.........4
My body lies down
and I hear my own
voice lying next to me. 

.........5
The rock is pleasure
and it opens
and we enter it
as we enter ourselves
each night. 

.........6
When I talk to the window
I say everything
is everything. 

.........7
I have a key
so I open the door and walk in.
It is dark and I walk in.
It is darker and I walk in.

 


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