The man and the woman
A man and a woman walk through a ruined house
the man breaks the last fractured sherds of glass from a window
the woman a desolate nun her face the dark of the moon
the man fingers the various parts of her body as if searching for
rotten spots
the sun dies with soft moanings of remembered flame
the woman blackens her face with a charred stick
wherever his fingers have grazed her flesh there is a faint track of
her lips twist into a smile she is holding an inappropriate animal
the rooms tensely sag into attitudes suggesting parturition
we know these two
-- originally pulished in Grey Matter
(University of Newcastle)
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