O, Lavinia your shadow is long on me,
your hands are mine, forgotten in your memories,
your tongue is mine, swallowed and silent,
Lavinia, you are embraced.

Ah, Ophelia your shadow is long on me,
your underwater smile has graced you, it is mine,
and all your dreams, ebbing with the tide, are my dreams,
sunk like the fishes in the deep...

12/16/2003

Posted on 12/17/2003
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