Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Ghent, five o'clock


Ghent, five o'clock

The best in him sometimes stops

between two cars he wanted

to drive on, but waits and will

no more, so much loss is coming


at him and pushes him down.Is that

the way it goes? No, he stares and stares

and asks himself, but sane

in body and heart he is driving on.


Until another look stops him again

the first blue of the evening

an hour that lies on its side

between others, and he, old yet


is lying with it, meek in his

innocence, he closes his arms

he hushes his head in

a movement of patience









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