I came to the east
to gauge the dimension of night
in broad gestures
that I devised in the south
watching flocks and plains
bright
like thighs remembered in May
I come from a south
measured clearly
in transparency of tomorrow’s fresh water.
From a circular time
free of seasons.
From a nation of transhumant bodies
blurred
in the colour of the thorned crust
of a black ground chased in live coal.
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