Wednesday, 8 October 2008

Stella cadente


 

Sleep-jumbled automat woman

scorches naked alabaster thighs

on the burning metal radiator

and falls from top-floor window in surprise

describing an incandescent arc

head over heels through the frozen night

reduced to a concentrated spark

of unthinking self-immolation.

Weightless with a head of full-moon light

at one with the whole of creation

she tumbles out, tit over arse,

because he phoned:"Look at the stars!"

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