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A Very Little Light
Jorge
de Sena
Simply
for the breath of staying alive
I
should talk to you,
simply
to pass some words across a table
as
bread or oil,
and
not have them die in me. Or
die
in you.
And
as I
measure
by measure slowly toss the crisp
herbs
of speech over towards your face,
a
very little light will come into my eyes,
a
very little light
will
glow out at you and enter your eyes
and
will be returned to me and calm our
mouths
against duplicity.
And
when all the bitter fratricides are
piled
up about us
this
little light, this tiny flame out on the
waste
patch,
this
wind-shaped tent that is your eye
with
its slow torch,
this
flickered heart with its ventricles
that
beat and pump,
will
provoke in us a bonfire and the will
to
live,
and
even from the embers there will glow
a
little light, a very little
shining
light,
as
we pass some words across the table,
simply
for the breath of
staying
alive.
Stephen Watts
in
collection The Blue Bag, Aark Arts, 2004,
ISBN
1899179925
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