Tuesday, March 10, 2015

ANNY BALLARDINI

(This feature is part of TRUCK’s Theme Issue on the List or Catalog Poem. You can go HERE for an Index of the Participating Poets.)






WHITE

for Maxine, my niece
November 2, 2014

what do you have to show in your white determination
what for your white sacrifice

white is the air
a white borderline
with white wings flying beyond the night
engulfed in its white light
its enveloping power: white
blood turned into white
white the girl
her head bowed in white submission
weak gentle white gratitude
for a white miracle

white are all your shapes
populating my ethereal white world
white poplars white birches
white the rushing freezing mountain water
white your warm smile
white your dear sight
white your embrace
in this white disease
of white cells eating you
in your white protection from unchained emotions

a white tower isolating your frail youngest self
what do you have to show in your white determination

what for your white sacrifice:
misunderstandings of your white heart

I’d give you white long years
full of white future happenings
white lies for you to live
white diamonds reflected in your dark eyes
my white desperation turned into reddest blood
into purifying white flows
cleansing out your white melancholy
your white surrender
to bring forcefully forth your whitest Self








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