Yellow Stars and Ice by Susan Stewart

[ophelia67]

 
Yellow Stars and Ice

I am as far as the deepest sky between clouds
and you are as far as the deepest root and wound,
and I am as far as a train at evening,
as far as a whistle you can't hear or remember.
You are as far as an unimagined animal
who, frightened by everything, never appears.
I am as far as cicadas and locusts
and you are as far as the

Comments

[iatrogenicmyth]

shit.

[iatrogenicmyth]

I mean: the poem isn't shit.

that was just all I could think of to say.

[ophelia67]

what are you saying ? lol