A WHISPERING SILENCE
(Chalkidiki September 2006)
arriving
somewhere…
but not here
Poseidon’s green trident
of peninsula’s thrust in
bird-scattered Aegean,
a vibrant cluster
of villages set beneath
the forested hills, with
black scorched-earth scars
wreaked by summer flame
only the turtles survive,
sculling safe beneath
the deep-water surface
of their hidden lake
life grows progressively
stranger, the longer I’m here,
a deepening need to firm
onto structures, as you
change my world by leaving it
there’s fossil-life beneath
the surface of stone,
yet for all associations
with timelessness
this place is ghosted
with impermanence,
old silences beneath
deep-water surfaces
your absence
demands reorientation,
a repositioning in
altered topography
I can’t escape
sensing body-warmth
in the touch of sun,
your breath in the silent
scars of old arguments,
with words as events enough
in themselves to define
things that fray, but
never quite separate,
things that words are
never equal to, until
I can write poems to
prove they are…
in the slow drawing-in
of dreams we share your
wait for anticipated
menstrual flow, as
you arrive somewhere…
but not here
there’s no place
like alone
Published in:
‘PURPLE PATCH no.116’
(UK – February 2007)
Featured online at:
‘GYPSY ART SHOW’
(24 April 2019)
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