Occasional Impressions

The Gemini Poets

Chant (sort of)?

here - take this - it is beautiful
it is the skin of a refugee boy
lying across my hand its shining sweat

take it, not as a poem but as a beauty -
do not tack it to the wall above your bed
or wrap it round your head like a leopard’s fur -

do not press it - so precise - between the leaves of a book

do not stroke it with your finger-tips and purr

do not screen it around the room where you sit
or discuss it with pleasant smoking friends

here - take this - it is beautiful

it is the skin of an orphan boy.
ijf

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