[New-Poetry] Maurice Gilliams

[James Cervantes]

Ooh.  Thanks for this.  It's like a good string quartet.

- Jim

On 8/28/06, Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at tin.it> wrote:
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> SOURCES OF INSOMNIA I
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> She carried the lamp behind the water lilies.
> The midnight dawn gnaws through
> the high chamber where Maria sleeps,
> as I long for water and for lilies.
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> I lie beside her. She rests with me. And none
> of us are in this world jointly,
> for nothing is here for elsewhere joined
> where no desire tears one and the other asunder.
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> The wall becomes mirror of the army of stars.
> The silence swells with fish. In the algae
> grate the saline crystals of old sores.
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> Will I remain then in the watery grave
> while the phantom ship sails on forever?
> – But when Maria sighs, I take her hand.
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> (c) 1954, MAURICE GILLIAMS
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> Translated by Marian de Vooght & Green Integer
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> star!
> Friedrich Nietzsche
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