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Nets of Sorrow<br />
Giovanni Previtali, 1994<br />
Leaning forward at eventide<br />
I cast my nets of sorrow<br />
out to your ocean-like eyes.<br />
And, there in your sight,<br />
my loneliness flays out <strong>and</strong> bursts flaming<br />
into a towering bonfire,<br />
throwing about its arms like a man drowning.<br />
I flash my red lighthouse signals<br />
into the faraway look in your eyes<br />
that ebb as the sea<br />
against the foot of the lighthouse tower.<br />
But you, woman who are steeped in the shadows of darkness,<br />
you, who are so far away from me <strong>and</strong> yet so mine.<br />
Still, at times, the shoreline of fear<br />
looms up in that look in your eyes.<br />
Leaning forward at eventide<br />
I cast my nets of sorrow<br />
out to that sea that buffets your ocean-like eyes.<br />
The birds of night peck at the early stars<br />
that scintillate as does my soul when I love you.<br />
Night rides at a gallop upon the mare of darkness,<br />
showering bright blue sparks across the fields.<br />
Mueller 44