CRAIG CZURY

COALSCAPE

Poem

„god gives you one face

and you make yourself another“

 

Chinese fortune cookie

WALKING AROUND

 

it was almost morning

and i wanted to crawl back in with you

where we sleep alongside the jetty

but the tide had come up

just about covering the stones with sand

and i couldn‘t find our bed

i was surprised the sea washes over us when we sleep

and started digging with my hands

then pounding the wet sand for you to open up

let me slide in beside you

scratching and pounding the sand

calling your name to wake up

but it was my sister‘s name i was calling

and i woke up knowing it hadn‘t been you i loved all those years

in your house along the shore

go back to sleep

 

 

Craig Czury. Parallel Rivertime. Saint-Petersburg, 1999

© Craig Czury, 1999