Harriet Zinnes
Bloodless

Untoward, unlivable, meager.
Useless the observable.
Uncanny methods.
Unsurvivable.
The occasion.
Unfathomable events.
The heart unlived.
Wordless the grief.
Not even love matters
when the lips are sewn.
Food, kisses more than irrelevant.
Death in pursuit
behind the needle.
Pain fathomless.

Silence on the mountaintops.
Caves collapse.
Foragers forsake the mud and rocks.
Careless the bodies of children.
Bloodless the paragon.


Die Hitze hangt sich in dich.