Blesok no. 24, January-February, 2002 Poetry

from “Selected Poems (1980-2000)”

/9 p. 1

Hans van de Waarsenburg

The stillness of ashes
A butterfly of reflection
The negative of time
Catafalque
Cloth
Lisbon
Misantrope
Studio
Galway

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The stillness of ashes

In the open wounds of blossom and
fresh green, the seal calls him.
He sees the water
grow hard as clear glass.

A limping melancholy rainstorm
bobbing on barren ground
no longer saves anything.
The doors banged closed.

Wind rustles overhead.
The vacuum expands.
A dream of warmth and sorrow
shatters against clear glass.

Shrivels and withers to the stillness of ashes.

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