Nan Williamson

everyone knows
Everyone knows it's unsettling
yellow blooms in a tall blue glass
chimes ringing under twisted trees
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the death of love

Right off, we knew it was precarious:
two families torn apart for years.
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against the night

1.
It's late:
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fame, baby

Consider night´s bridge
ablaze with copper lights:
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asombrada

pasan los días
cuando pierdo la maravilla
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city song

called to a thousand times I never looked back
made my way to the unreal city
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interlude

sleeping on the rooftop
lulled by mourning doves
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dark matter

I wanted to stay but
whispering lines from Solomon's
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secret concert

Barefoot, we follow the shore,
fine sand burnishing feet,
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courtesan (from the floating world)

Blue blue grass lines the river bank
wild wild willows overfill the tangled garden
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demonic snow

I´m not mollified by sunrays
striking green bottles
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you have a right

You have a right to carnations,
the flowers of god.
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midnight carnival

Under an emerald moon
the midnight carnival's
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autumn

late afternoon October yellow
lights still-blooming Contessas
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wind

shrieks cold pale light
strikes hawthorn trees
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unconsoled

In a white milk jug,
mirrored in the lacquered oak,
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bastet

1.
curled in languorous sun,
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georgian bay meditation


Rosy granite, dark-veined
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heard in the shell

For D. after breast cancer diagnosis
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days go by
when I lose hold of wonder
when last night's quarrel
or fresh reported slaughters
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