rain falling, African rain
cool as starlight
on the leaves
on the white
coffee flowers
madonna lilies in deep water
blooming like opium
Stravinsky on the gramophone
and servant boys
singing their reedy songs
*
guns
the sound of crystal
shattering
his plane gone down
in thickets of red milkwood
he is dead
we buried him
in that sabulous landscape
under the breath of lions
*
in Denmark
under the snows
I try to remember
the ruddy days of Africa
the carnivals
lions disturb my sleep
I live
at the salt edge of loneliness
writing stories to save myself
all night the moondogs howl
in thickets of red milkwood
I die of malheurs passes
closing a parenthesis
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