Tuesday poem #140 : Eleni Zisimatos : LOVE

Tried in the fires of extinguishment

reasoned out of night-eyes

hard lessons and invitations

blurring at the last

moment of communion. Word

of solace in the tired eyes

and the wintering over of

a young estrangement.

You, the possible

investment in the other world

a hope slim enough

to pass under a door

but the wilderness is out

there is no room for figments

the mystery of why

we came together

always at hand

Eleni Zisimatos lives in Montreal. She has been short-listed for a National Magazine Award and for the Robert Kroetsch Award. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Vallum Magazine.

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