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The Windowless Poet to the Sea
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The sky has run behind my back:
and is hiding in my head.
I face a guillotine
and mister headsman,
who is saying:
"your head here" and I think of
you.
I heard you captured in a shell,
I heard you sang against my ear,
sang real well,
sang with a compass in your rocky
mouth of coral and dust,
sang pierced:
of a man who died a god who
lived on this isle of rock and sand
and sea-bird, sea-bird, he called to
two people of sky by name, and
the sun rose, and the moon peered
down, curious.
Sea, Sea, I will write you down one day
perhaps your forehead of sand will wash away
and then I will call to you by name, as a friend
someday
and is hiding in my head.
I face a guillotine
and mister headsman,
who is saying:
"your head here" and I think of
you.
I heard you captured in a shell,
I heard you sang against my ear,
sang real well,
sang with a compass in your rocky
mouth of coral and dust,
sang pierced:
of a man who died a god who
lived on this isle of rock and sand
and sea-bird, sea-bird, he called to
two people of sky by name, and
the sun rose, and the moon peered
down, curious.
Sea, Sea, I will write you down one day
perhaps your forehead of sand will wash away
and then I will call to you by name, as a friend
someday
Full title: The Windowless Poet at Desk, to the Sea.
For #transliterations, prompt 8, for this movie. The times I chose were: 1.07, 2.01. 0.20, and 1.27. I'm unsure if I managed to incorporate all of them in.
The guillotine is a desk. The desk in the movie. Because that was one creepy desk.
For #transliterations, prompt 8, for this movie. The times I chose were: 1.07, 2.01. 0.20, and 1.27. I'm unsure if I managed to incorporate all of them in.
The guillotine is a desk. The desk in the movie. Because that was one creepy desk.
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Three years later and I still love this poem! I do have a new question: is the man who died a god any kind of specific reference? and the two people of sky the sun and moon? It sounds incredibly archetypal and works very well not being a specific reference, I'm just curious.