Saturnalia
(Text by Lynn Rosa André)
remember when Time
didn’t devour us like children?
remember when we looked up
and didn’t see an open casket
full of dying stars?
i feel their silence in my wounds
and yet: Curiosity and Perseverance
are still dancing on another world
among the inert bodies of their ancestors
they dance, carefree, they dance
and maybe tomorrow the garden
will finally be in bloom and i will go
look at the roses unfurling their petals
towards a graveyard sky full of
all the things we leave behind.