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'Demands'

everyone's demands
intact beneath
a path
walking on a strategic rail track
few dead bodies set apart
as the body of a rose
who died in 1987

the demands of a self-standing
allocution imposed
on all the people
in the dream

- We might stay here, you know?
- Nice pub...it has a kind of literary truth...
- Undoubtly so.
- How about your father?
- He died.
- Ah, yes, he dies every night, doesn't he?
- He suffered. Oh, yes, he did.
- Like what?
- An allegory.

Two horrible hands on a marble tray
leaking and a round hearth
blooming like any other flower
or like an integral speech.

Here  out of the blue
all fair and mystical
he kiss his rose on the cheek
as though he were her lover,
- flower of the same name

deceptive, as in the dream
where she can see who
he was and who
he is
no more.


Erminia Passannanti
Salerno, 7.4.2002

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