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after the swans
after the last
of them had flown
and we drowning
all of us left
in the antiquity of neon
there was no particular
time when
the wind caught the souls
of the not quite dead
child’s-cry shaking
the rocking-horse windows
swept the past
ahead of the future
the terror, the error-strewn past
then when
living became more than difficult
we walked, not
finding the bridge
Marionbridge, was that the name?
as in a song once
in a dead-town bar in June
those summers of heavy rain
was it five of us?
after the swans
did the river still drop?
five, or were there
more? the waterfall! frozen
was it? or the fast-flowing
waters dry
not angry on lands of no paths
remembering love or the need of it
driven by the need
as the ravens knew it
the geese gone
the swans
what to find at the bridge
what river to cross
more than the memory
two small stones
close as lovers
worn down
deaf as time itself
marked a confluence
of almost-dried stream beds
reeds in dead heather
spoke of a spring
welling will
seep, keep, wrenched
limb bruised
sole, keep spirit
over one more trackless hill
nearing
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