So I won’t miss you. So my soul may again enjoy the sea once more.
The way I wish I could erase from my memory, a movie I love may fade away, so that the sea may again remember everything.
The way she jumped from a nine storey apartment building, and I thought I was falling.
Falling, the doctor thought I no longer had a spine. I have a clavicle, where the vertebra should be. Each time I look down, my clavicle would twist and turn, winding up my dreams.
I don’t know how but I’m still alive without a spine like that. To surpass this life. All I know is that I must take your hand love, and head for the sky.
With a pair of shoulder joints as a metaphor.
Just like that, the word “poem” is not just a “poem”. The sea isn’t just the sea, including the time you flowed along with the tides and ended up at a bar.
The analogy is “you went along with her flow and you both end up at a bar”, then the verb is flow but the poem, it pulls you towards silence.
The “silent bar” reminds you of the moon, the periods, darkness, night. And you’re suddenly curious about the sweetness of the night. You see a pair of eyes in the middle of the sky, all the same colour. But there is Red in the Black, the colour of flesh when it’s exposed and weeping.
You are also weeping.
Colours are suggestive with the usual points of reference, like a tragedy like angel and demon.
Behind the curtain of the night is the light.
We may write: beauty walks through the night. So that black is withdrawn half into the infinite and half into hopelessness, she is half of the moon and half of the sun, half human and half angel.
Oh listen, dear love, those lost and forgotten footsteps half of them are often silent within the other half of them left behind, the entire night…
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September 2023
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