to be alone for a month is good I follow the bright fish of memory falling deeper into myself to the endless present the child's cry is my only clock
yet your singing echoes in corners who clatters the red tea-pot or opens the door with a bang to look at the evening sky? your typewriter lies silent it is reproachful I cannot make it stutter like you
I sit in the woods at dusk listening for the sound of your singing there are letters from a thousand miles you wrote a week ago like leaves from an autumn tree they fall on the mat
it was your voice woke me and the absent touch of your hand
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Frances Horovitz - Poem of Absence
Date: 2010-11-05 03:38 pm (UTC)Frances Horovitz
to be alone for a month is good
I follow the bright fish of memory
falling deeper into myself
to the endless present
the child's cry is my only clock
yet your singing echoes in corners
who clatters the red tea-pot
or opens the door with a bang
to look at the evening sky?
your typewriter lies silent
it is reproachful
I cannot make it stutter like you
I sit in the woods at dusk
listening for the sound of your singing
there are letters from a thousand miles
you wrote a week ago
like leaves from an autumn tree
they fall on the mat
it was your voice woke me
and the absent touch of your hand