Andrew Felsinger

Romance

toes hassle the earth
it cries so
the wind
in the valley

the valley in the wind

my name is Santiago

the burden of
ponderous
ponderous
thought
is too much for the frogs
of love

this too was
foreseen

this too is not
your necklace

the truth is an evaporated

slug

too
your arms
and mine
this night
is
the weather

was beautiful

this last May

the sardines and
the boobie thrush

my ears tingle

with

the rudimentary design

lift my thought to grief

the sandal salesman is
the sandal salesman
is the day light

I've eaten at all those cafes

so we go to the movies
and nothing

but darkness
darkness sweet and endless

Orginally publisherd in Crack Magazine, edited by Lauren Schiffman.

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