Unusual lover, part of my full poetry collectio: "Emerald City" Options

[saore]

Unusual lover


what is it about night
that you carry it in your mouth
beyond the moon’s orbit and time
through strange paths frequented
by Thanatos and his twin brother?
Is whatever just happened
already a memory, or are our tongues
blushing from the exchanged saliva?
Be rid of that black cloak in your eyes.
We were the strays that taught God
how to die in this queer universe.

[Psyche]

Thank you, Sergio, for your sincere regrets. The attacked relation -49 years old- is finally back home but far from recovered. A long convalescence awaits him, with further surgeries... He can barely walk with a little help. It's so sad! And his little girls were present... enough!

I'm now in Bariloche near my daughter, after a month's postponement of my 10 day hols. It's so beautiful here!! Snow-capped mountains, deep lakes... too lovely to even get poetical, as I have a rather scatological mind and it would seem a shame to use these gifts from heaven as metaphors for what goes on in my head. I mean it..

I have to abandon this PC now, so I'll just ask about the first 3 lines:

'what is it about night
that you carry it in your mouth
beyond the moon’s orbit and time'

'night' here is the object the way you've phrased it, so the subject carries 'night' in his/her mouth beyond the moon's orbit....etc.

This startles me coz it's a mighty thing to carry night in one's mouth, and I think it's a wondrous metaphor but would be glad if you were to explain a little. Your unusual poetry, in this case about love, metaphysical & real, certainly deserves further recognition and I hope the collection can be published soon.

Oops, must go, will come back!
Sylvia