When my father was alive,
We had very little to say
To each other, but now
...
How can anything born to water
Look so drowned? Your sad eye,
Half closed, sees nothing.
...
By the foot of the bed,
from memory, I recite
D'Invilliers' quatrain.
“Then wear the gold hat”
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Beneath the waters, since I was a boy,
I have felt the tug of gravity pulling
Me down. This all-too-heavy body
...
What she thought of all he'd just said
Would remain a mystery, as so much
About her remained a mystery to him,
...