Selected poems (July-August 2017)

(This post was first published on the Ecca Poets blog site)

Best drier

The best drier
of tears
is the wind.


Date: 23.7.2017

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Still calls

I put your underpants
back in the drawer,
your t-shirt into the cupboard.


A time will come
to lose
those rituals


but for now
the Wood owl
still calls.


Date: 25.7.2017

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In each other

At our usual
picnic spot
on the R63


I stop
to note my gladness
at these places


across
the country
we shared.


We were
without wanting
to be


a restless pair
forced to travel
these roads


– never really
at home
except


in
each
other.


Date: 16.8.2017

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Silke Heiss
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