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Sport 6: Autumn 1991

Here's Water

Here's Water

Venice.
Here's water   doors
open to it   silver
and gold   money
in your shoe and
you are never as beautiful
as the floor you
stand on.

*

Landed in the middle
of language   the world
speaks in tongues   you
understand only one
of them   look up
and another ceiling
bowls you over.

*

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A woman asks
about a Chagall painting:
but why is the couple lying
down? why does the man have
two faces? why is the train
upside down? why does the
heart lie in the palm
of that man?

*

Wedding photos full of
strangers. The best man a
tourist from America.
Bridesmaid in a T-shirt called
So Many Men and So Little Time
your mother-in-law appears
to be Spanish, your father,
aged 18, twists his neck
to get a better view of
the Bridge of Sighs.

*

The scent of white lilies picks
you up   light carries you.