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I don’t know if you know
I carry you
in an involuntary sigh
in a constant exodus of yearning
and in the frantic deepness of all
nostalgic thought, shaking time and distance
to place me near you
in the closeness of your warmth
remembered

I carry you in sorrow
precipitated
in the absence of your voice
and in the memory of your rib cage molded
in the shape of ardent weakness
my embrace

I carry you, the braille at the tip of my fingers
life drawn in lines on my left palm
and in the carcass of calm interrupted
by the pounding of a heart’s ill-time

I don't know if you know, but
I carry you in the crown of memories consoled
and in the spine of excess
where I fall, between involuntary sighs
defeated
in your skin remembered
from the confines
of the heart
On a night...just a night.
 Jan 2016 Roanne Manio
Tupelo
Some days I want to hold you forever,
Others all I can do is think about the skin
underneath your clothes
 Jan 2016 Roanne Manio
PB
I see her
In the morning
In the lunch
In the straying thoughts of my mind.

I want to ask her
Let me take you out for a coffee
So that
*I can do to you
What spring does to cherry trees.
Inspired by Pablo Neruda.
It's about a girl I see in my office everyday.
TWO fishes swimming in the sea,
Two birds flying in the air,
Two chisels on an anvil-maybe.
Beaten, hammered, laughing blue steel to each other-maybe.
Sure I would rather be a chisel with you than a fish.
Sure I would rather be a chisel with you than a bird.
Take these two chisel-pals, O God.
Take 'em and beat 'em, hammer 'em, hear 'em laugh.
Whirl!
My girl’s saree fringe
swirls;
round my face it
furls…
Blow again, north wind!
 Jan 2016 Roanne Manio
Anggita
I have my eyes closed

I find it dim right way
Here, for you I may pray
Or at least, I try to say
I try to find place to lay

I have my eyes closed

I solemnly choose good words,
Sentences and proper phrases
To poetically picture the aches
That fade me to ashes

I have my eyes closed

My mouth keeps murmuring
And the mind can't stop arguing
What if it might be nothing
Nothing helps to keep believing


Jan, 20 2016

My eyes are closed still.
you and me
tentative
beads of
sweet
salty
sweat
let us
lick
each
others'
doubts
away
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