Monday, August 29, 2022

a blood drop

a blood drop

fallen from the ceiling

drew a wingless angel on your face

and I smiled in derision

but after

devouring your little feet

reddish like wild poppies

the chest started to burn

bringing my heart down to ashes


in “Voices of Contemporary World Poetry” (New York, 2013)

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