Monday, January 4, 2016

Kit Kelen #4 - After Yiannis Ritsos


blurt it out

as in the case of the country
you were brought up to love

there isn't a womb of words
nor are we the soil given voice

words penciled
fade from the page
we fade in

words sink like stones
in the well of the heart
and one day
the world
goes without saying

still billions of years till then
still time to mean all that you must
to get the phrasing right

to blurt it out
in among annotations
future leaving well alone
words on their death beds
will squeeze a last breath
out of the healthy animal



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