dark sun

dark sun
for a fallen poet

dark tree in a grey sun

those left
shall not know
how dark the
sun that rose
for you
how night
sat in stone
on the day
and love
cut its
vein

we cannot
cross that
darkness
the spot
in view
that grew
to an ocean

so believed

so believed*

Rainer & Lou

no child

this gentle man

yet don’t they say

it’s the children

who see angels

who hear god’s

voice above their

own

he had not written

to his best love*

for a year

yet sick now

unto death

his body ripped

through with pain

he begged his doctor

to write her

and ask of that

apple kiss

apple kiss
for Keikei

Apple Trees in Bloom at Giverny, 1901, by Claude Monet

so i dream
in the cold
of the year
the doors
creaking open
so wanting i
to surprise you
into happiness
trick you
into love
catch you in
the flow of the
hand like an
apple fallen
from the
emerald
sun

june 2016

Copyright © 2016 Peter Le Baige. All Rights Reserved

Handel’s Violin Sonata, Op.1 No.13 as performed by Richard Egarr (harpsichord) & Andrew Manze (violin)