First, your face
decked
by jewels
and half lifetimes
Broken vessels
fill your dazed
neck
Your eye and lash
come from this mountain
of granite,
smoke and cancer
from the soil, you cut them
as a fragrant lemon
You let yourself fall
the dust of your feet
empties you,
measures you,
overcomes you
dust by dust
blow by blow
finely
on the snow
of Berlin.
Then, a nest,
of fork
and knife
gives birth to
snakes
and stairs
turquoise step
on which you sing
and pray.
Finally, abysses,
acids, earthquakes,
only existent
in indian dreams
cloak of thirsty
and yellow threads
You let it fall
You go away
to let yourself know
you are exiled
from every country,
from your sands,
from your nation,
from your glass
from your ashes of Paris.
May 15, 2014
May 15, 2014 at 1:52 AM UTC
First, your face
decked
by jewels
and half lifetimes
Broken vessels
fill your dazed
neck
Your eye and lash
come from this mountain
of granite,
smoke and cancer
from the soil, you cut them
as a fragrant lemon
You let yourself fall
the dust of your feet
empties you,
measures you,
overcomes you
dust by dust
blow by blow
finely
on the snow
of Berlin.
Then, a nest,
of fork
and knife
gives birth to
snakes
and stairs
turquoise step
on which you sing
and pray.
Finally, abysses,
acids, earthquakes,
only existent
in indian dreams
cloak of thirsty
and yellow threads
You let it fall
You go away
to let yourself know
you are exiled
from every country,
from your sands,
from your nation,
from your glass
from your ashes of Paris.
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