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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

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