Together and by Ourselves by Alex Dimitrov

Author:Alex Dimitrov
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2017-10-27T00:00:00+00:00

All the Way Up I Took Myself

There’s a little of myself in you, you know it.

Like the night in day, like that feeling

of New York in Paris.

I could say a lot of things,

I could tell you about Venice

or how Turner’s paintings make us

much more beautiful

when we’re in front of them,

the story of Bulkaen, how he stood,

mouth open, and one by one

a group of boys would spit in it—

how spit will sometimes turn to roses,

how roses turn to nothing.

We’re below the fog,

sometimes we’re in it

and we try—we try to write or call,

hang up, forget just why

or who we’re missing.

Did I tell you? I finally made it

to the Empire State, that building,

all the way up is where I took myself.

It’s wild I know, but everyone I love

I saw below, like figurines.

You were walking in the city

in your long black coat

and you felt far and happy.

The rain was red, the rest, unlike

the past, was roses.

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