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Letter to Richardis (1)
no one knows for sure your body
O tender shoot young as I used to be your body 900 years after us eager on screen kneeling at my feet you say you only want to be anywhere I am the gravel rolls unsteady the camera closes in your small mouth a sacrament in itself and no one knows for sure the breath that passed between us knees bent hair uncovered we knelt we worshipped a body Letter to Richardis (2)
they imagine your mouth an animal hungry twitching I want to subordinate myself to you obedient creature a voice like water I wade tread slow seek the tide of each eye deep water surrounds me and we are standing in a room of stone and you ask again will you take me Letter to Richardis (3) listen O sister I speak to you in spirit my grief a narrow bird flies up to heaven my grief destroys all consolation O why have you forsaken me an orphan in your absence feeble a sinner I mistake the sun for god I look for you O creature of light I wither desolate my heart snatched from its chamber O love listen remember me |
