Children of paradise
Channel: The rose constants
Date: 2022-04-27

Children of paradise from Vanadís and caesius 
(for Liz Rosenberg)

‘We’ you half-chose
to call home,
‘we’ you may say
in no way
rights you
or invites you
to stay,

children of paradise,
where did you go,
where did you go away?

‘We’ you light for
the night-door
‘we’ could come through, 
but with no candle
its saucer
flies and hovers
and shakes,

children of paradise,
where did you go,
where did you go away?

‘We’ you can’t count,
makes gurgling sounds,
‘we’ full of spit
does what we did,
draws a bathtub
waits for no one,
and bathes

children of paradise,
where did you go,
where did you go away?

‘We’ I lathed outside-in,
taught to wallow in pins,
‘we’ slept as it swallowed
mastic and marshmallows,
then I tapped on its nose
and wouldn’t you know
it’s awake

children of paradise,
where did you go,
where did you go away?

‘We’ I wrote to
half-sober,
‘we,’ my first half,
write back
from your desk or your bed,
a roof overhead
or a lake,

children of paradise,
where did you go,
where did you go away?

‘We’ you told me
like a story,
‘we’ I cut terse,
like verse,
since words
are herds
astray,

children of paradise,
where did you go,
where did you go away?

‘We’ has no share
in its dark hair
which you fingered
so prefigured,
frightened
that we might have
to wait,

children of paradise,
where did you go,
where did you go away?