Say it now: honey from the sweet, drunk, dead:
I lift my eyes,
  
I’m listening; the moon sinks;
I chart the back of my hand.
    
I don’t hear your words: I hear the wind,
my dreams, disasters, my own strange name.

John Thompson, from “Ghazal XXIII,” in Stilt Jack
(via a-pair-of-ragged-claws)

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