Saturday, June 19, 2021

The End of the Ink

Books are ghosts, that possess with their self-possession,
Though the corpse is put away for later haunting,
As if they could last forever, what never started 
And never seemed to end, unlike the hot forged thoughts
That pass with aperitifs between us, from somewhere 
Not so threatening as what will stay, ideas
That will come to define us, instead of racing
Away, like an octupus who loves every form
Until there's one that it cannot escape, too tight
The prison of the closest thing, you want to touch.