P. B. SHELLEY

O poet,
love-in-life's symbol
why

so blind
careless

cutoff
for ever --
eyes on sharkteeth

Let me paint you, my master
staring gravely with gray hair
into the silence of your house,
pressing your hands together:

in love with change,
and on the turbulent Mediterranean
staring   at Death

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Written 1982? Revised 2001.

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