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)
(via a-pair-of-ragged-claws)