Drawing by Judith Wolfe

ROBERT JOHNSTON /

Poem



      Death

      Let me
      pass
      as trees
      on the far
      hill

      are taken
      by a white
      autumn fog,

      delicately,

      for I
      have felt
      the delicacy
      of your smile,

      your most
      mild

      look.

      I did not
      think
      eyelashes
      could be
      so elegant

      and
      passion
      such
      ex-

      quisite
      agony.

      The incan-

      descent

      colour
      of your love
      crosses
      spaces,

      ascends
      to
      clear
      heavenly
      ecstasy

      in your
      poetry.

      They say

      death comes
      as a kiss --

      yes,

      may
      tenderly

      my cells

      disperse.


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