a conversation in poetry

Dominique Hecq - #11 - Screen, after Magdalena Ball's Fractal

Screen

your hands, working their way in and out of
the sink, twisting against the inevitable

ends of your unending love

you realise that if you were to look

                         inside

you would not be greeted with the sight 

of hammers and tongs

working on an automaton's

                        body to be

completed with wheels and springs

meant to farewell a tongue

 

                                                         displaced

from its habitation within or out

side displacement itself