letter arrived
in strange handwriting
cut to erase
what we have done
you thought I didn’t
mind just a little
poison on my tongue
what does the sea
feel like, sound like
is the sunshine warm
on her face
I miss my friend, the girl
where are you
keeping her these days
In Christchurch
Hosanna!
In Christchurch
Hosanna she lives
this memory
a bolt of laughter
cut from the stalk
still the roots
keep drawing water
some secret flower
blooming in a loop
In Christchurch
Hosanna!
In Christchurch
Hosannah she lives
out where she’s swimming
the sun is rising
still cold and dark
on my side
there it is summer
she’s living under
quietly beneath
the smirking curve of the world
(sunrise! tomorrow!
her heart beats! tomorrow!
o glory, her heartbeat
is out there still)
I’ll set someone working night and day to watch over her
someone I’ll forget so that I won’t know either of us
if it happens that years from now I pass us in
the bustle of any busy city street
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