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PALETTE
that's me
smiling picture in the paper
dust on the books never read
gazing at blurry figurations
trying to forget threats
laughing at worn out nevers
chanting sometimes
emptiness of silent day-breakings
burning inside
pagan permissiveness
eyes of sequestered sites
digging dismantled senses
dull throbbing once madly forged cries
craving for better-shaped sentences
not shades
nor wantings
but light
(A Time t be Free, Harlingen: Quill, p. 125, 1999)
FIGURES
greasy voices moaning about a bunch of regrettable byes inventory of recollections assaulting on the poet's eyes one private two painful three negligible the empty canvas is impregnated with façades fallacies fakes one sweet-tasting image two solvable metaphors three always tired hints thirsty the cheapest surrealist poem cries out for the invisible f i n g e r s that (it) can never touch
(Shadows and Light, Owings Mills: Watermark, p. 517, 1996.)