Arriva

Arriva*

We do not know each other.
The fog is carving the ghostly 
silhouettes of houses, people 
and hopes.
And like a sound the hand is –
a semitone of the scream
of seagulls “Arriva … Arriva”
Nothing is coming.
Nothing has come.
I am trying to breathe –
in a time beyond. 
In the gardens of the cascades
before the dawn and after the rain.
We do not know each other.
You’ve melted in the sun,
a sun in the fog
and you’ve never been here.
The paper remembers some passed
sounds come from the outer 
world – Arriva.

In our eyes we are burning. 



*Arriva (ital)-arrives
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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