Drawing by Judith Wolfe

DANIEL MOURELLE /

Two Poems



      The Fall of Drumhill Castle

      Fright is our only
      certainty

      pierces
      whoever acts
      in advance

      gives up moving
      in order
      not to accept forsaking

      by its side
      freedom hides no tremors
      when the sentinel leans
      his tedium
      against the battlements

      Passions Under Truce

      The places we leave

      cease

      and configure again

      when we return
      imperfectly

      permissions from one side
      to sustain ourselves on the other

      we know nothing about
      the bottom of the well
      until we throw the bucket down
      so knows the well
      about us

      reality is equal to itself
      on that precise instant
      when
      having no memories
      we would fall down to pieces


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