Friday, July 29, 2016

the middle distance

by lisel mueller (from the need to hold still)

you have retreated behind your eyes
to enter your other life,
the real one, where you are
in charge of the characters

your childhood has been corrected
and you are not going to die
and you keep moving toward a figure
whose arms stretch out to you

it is always the same figure
and the distance remains the same

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