Nobody knows him. Not even she.
Sometimes though, when he can’t understand
the memory shaking her,
when she seems to have escaped a world
wild with ferocity, he thinks he loves her
more than anyone yet. She is pale, easy
to wrinkle, readable as Proust. She is long,
too long to explain. She comes
in volumes. Tomes. She is described
at length, never captured. Tangled veins
show around her nipples. Her neck is a swan’s—
she is part bird, that much he knows.
When he brings her darkness, she falls
asleep. Often, he turns her, halfway
through the night, to face him
and often, when she’s engulfed
in the dream, he cups her hands in his
and promises that together they will go
farther than either ever alone.
Tonight as he mutters again
endless words of expatriation
never to materialize,
he feels a flutter
inside the cage his fingers create,
the brush of feathers against his palms.
Infused for so long
with thoughts of a salutary journey,
she has begun to migrate without him.
–E.C. Belli,
plein jeu
(Accents Publishing)
Beautiful! “Readable as Proust” Love it!
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