"DANS UN DELIRE PARRALELE"

"My Father's Shadow"

When I awoke
my father's shadow had left my side
light was still of dreams
blue with labyrinthine passages of unplunged time.
I was lovely alone
holding in hand the flesh of rib.
When I awoke my father's shadow
had left my side.
I walked the streets
too open to sky
and in the narrow backstreets smudged with
man's passage felt cold fear of criminal
bending on the blue stone sea
reflecting opaque sky.
When I returned
my father's shadow hung in the cupboard.
The room emptied of light
was too cold to love in.
I cried
for long hours.
Perhaps a moment before dawn
I came to sad dreams
mangled by fear of falling
falling
onto flesh splitting stone shattering
rock below.

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