Friday, August 15, 2025

She sailed away July 1982

  

Gone, West, a silhouette behind an orange face, that half lit horizon, a half closed eye, stirring up the evening tides, as I wait morning

She sail on the warm blue tongues of lapping water, sunburned, blistered, like a pirate ship, holding in its hole the pieces of my shattered heart, time dividing us with each kilometer, while I stroll the widow’s walk, staring, already waterlogged from too many stormy winters past, her thin fingers lifted, this sad gesture before the dark comes.


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