Distance is the cog wheel
on the haunted axle of my hearing,
grinding fine the deadened mind
of that unborn god
waiting to be caught
by the earth’s blue speed,
and carrying in a handled urn
the plucked heart – ours,
it’s beating, it’s heard, it’s beating, it’s heard,
a sphere in wild growth –
the roads are wet with tears,
memory frail and elastic,
a sling for stones, a gondola
drowned in childlike Venice’s,
a tooth yanked from the cells with a string –
down the empty socket of Vesuvius. And you exist.
(Nichita Stanescu)
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