19 Jun 2013

July Poem

July Poem  (in Arles, France 1970)


I know a bloated rabbit
which lies on the surface
of a green canal.
Every time I walk by
it looks at me and we talk
of canals and of death,
of mosquitoes and yew trees.
Soon the rabbit will burst
and I shall talk to it no more.

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