Comet of stillness princess of what is over



high note held without trembling without voice without sound



aura of complete darkness keeper of the kept secrets



of the destroyed stories the escaped dreams the sentences



never caught in words warden of where the river went



touch of its surface sibyl of the extinguished



window onto the hidden place and the other time



at the foot of the wall by the road patient without waiting



in the full moonlight of autumn at the hour when I was born



you no longer go out like a flame at the sight of me



you are still warmer than the moonlight gleaming on you



even now you are unharmed even now perfect



as you have always been now when your light paws are running



on the breathless night on the bridge with one end I remember you



when I have heard you the soles of my feet have made answer



when I have seen you I have waked and slipped from the calendars



from the creeds of difference and the contradictions



that were my life and all the crumbling fabrications



as long as it lasted until something that we were



had ended when you are no longer anything



let me catch sight of you again going over the wall



and before the garden is extinct and the woods are figures



guttering on a screen let my words find their own



places in the silence after the animals





