In Your World Homage For Georg Trakl

In your world Love has tentacles which it wraps around your body to squeeze out even that last breath you gulped before they tightened like a garrote. You fell into a stupor, until they released you, suddenly, like the limp arms of an exhausted lover... In your world Wine is never sweet, because the young women who tread the red grapes let their salt tears drop continually into the vat. When you wave your arms, and cry out, 'Stop, stop! ' they misunderstand you, and stop treading, but their tears, so many tears, keep falling and falling. When you approach them, your own eyes glazed over, the youngest one raises her head to face you, and you see yourself mirrored in both of her wide, tremulous eyes... In your world, Desires are carefully placed in purple-tinted glass vessels, which are carefully placed on high wooden shelves in the attic room of an ancient mansion, its outside walls covered with vines, and surrounded by hedges and willow trees. The silence of this place is never violated. Wolves, who are friends to lovers and poets, patrol the neighborhood with steadfast resolve... In your world, Blue is your chosen radiance: blue is the color of dusk and dawn, the color of lake water and surging oceans. Blue is the color inside the painting you watched Kokoschka create with his nerves. Blue is the color of Schubert's sonatas your sister plays with intense purpose. Blue is the color of the poems you write in an adjacent room, suffused with autumnal glow. And, even now your heart shining in its blue hour, you realize blue will be the color of Ellis's eyes when he awakes on the morning of his Second Resurrection....