(Venetian)
Grey November first
artifice
subtlety
trembling in their halo
the mauve lampposts
and the unstable
water of the lagoon
one would mistake it for some
surface of the
moon
or some
interstellar space
where
the foot and soul would get lost
anyway.
cold pliers bite the flesh
shout of pain no longer
stifled
as well as perfect equanimity of
the eternal stones,
also the quiet tapping of boat engines
in La Napoule, smell
of the water,
infinite grey frames of the bank,
hugeness of
the open sea,
and quivering islands
Oh! I would live at
ease in Venetian palaces
where very masked silhouettes
dance in
infamous splendor.