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| Tír na nÓg Sing to me Nazirah some caravanserai ghazal bathe me in tremulous milk from your oasis until there is no place left in the galaxy save there along your fluted throat slightly straining, eddying with song Lull me to forget losing our child lull this head, whiskers whitening each day sing it please our hiccuped orison, our tarantella woman and man and child some Tír na nÓg untortured by embarkations |
Somewhere Outside Eden He only comes above deck after dark now on phantasm feet that barely touch the planks Ekimi cries into the jungle night upon night calling out to fled animals the boy, me himself too The general's troops slaughtered your family yet we three founded another you and Akami and I for a time the world was changed now just the two of us, like the first days everything alters, it simply must the river is replicating, I am evolving but Ekimi look! I am still here and so again could be paradise and another, yet another after that This boat falls silent suffocating with your ghosts each evening you call to me out there some other version on a different river each night I am summoned by clamouring souqs, festivals the nocturnes of lovers hurry Ekimi each morning discovers more of me stolen away
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