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Manus in Mano

By Eve Messervy

Manus, enclosed in her mind and

four walls,

staring out at the sky slowly 

changing shades as the world rests without her.

Mano, enclosed in his mind

In four walls of packed people like sardines

In foreign waters, drinking like fish,

A fellow stranger


And the monotonous routine of Manus commenced

grip tight on the bus home, a fellow stranger 

who is not a stranger.

To that a smile snatched her

so fleeting, she remembered 

the transient Manus in Mano 

and it rained, he loved the rain.


Manus, in, Mano, Manus in Mano again

On a steep alley in a bar,

Gushing water mollified Manus 

Smoking like chimneys, of 

a home with a balcony 

and she caught a glimpse of herself

in the mirror. 


She liked the rain too,

but there was a line drawing of that balcony

on her chest

in harsh charcoal that bled,

it was high in the heavens that she couldn’t quite reach so

she folded the drawing nicely, and 

put it under her pillow. 

Art. It was art, it was poetry that kissed her

head

it was holy water for a priest

but remember, he liked the rain, so 

Manus


Mano

Once again,

For their fate was hapless from the start.

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Melted Sapphire Seeps

By Eve Messervy

You are the face I saw in rain 

So fragile; melted sapphire seeps, 

Crying gushes rivers, sleep 

Through flooded webs of long – lost lust, 

Windows healing, questions burnt 

Of widows leaving stone and dirt,

Howling prayers that wilt away and

Dissipate to nuanced day,

Another unjust pneuma utters 

Words so empty, ink that stutters,

Gutters flood from monsters grief,

They’re broken heroes 

Alone they weep, 

But we squint our eyes, 

In attempt to see, the lines of lies that 

Will make us free, rain 

That drips like melted sapphire seeps

Cold as stone; as silent as sleep

Yet all in all a stone alone 

A face that fades, a face it formed 

Through unfelt fingers and 

Eyes blurred stiff I sit by the steps

And list ‘what ifs’

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Painted like Klimt

By Eve Messervy

 

To be a woman is to be perfectly 

destructive;

To be painted like Klimt 

Bleeding gold

With a faint smile.

I met a woman who kept me asleep once,

Uttering such words

She made me cry.

 

She had not the gift of motherhood

Nor the touch of love,

Her hands were hard-worked,

her skin weathered.

She wore lines of lust and love 

And torment 

Tear burns beside her eyes like 

companions to the lenses,

The mark of sorrow stained.

To be a woman is to be perfectly destructive

She said

Holding my hand as I slept 

 

I see a sacred subtlety in the eyes of a women 

A stone cold fire 

burns the smell of florals

And feels like linen on naked skin.

Early morning beams of sun 

decorate the sheets.

I open up my sore eyes

To an empty palm, I close my fist –

It dawns on me 

As my reflection looks back 

Into the tear burned eyes 

Like companions, to my lenses.

 

My tyrant mind

Plays tricks with me

And dances like I used to dance

It conjures up the girls from Klimt 

And bleeds gold 

into my dreams.

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An Ode to My Beloved Stranger

An Ode to My Beloved Stranger

Eve Messervy 

 

Dear friend, you found me once again.

You feel like an embrace

A heavy coating on my being, you taste 

So familiar 

I wrap my arms around you dear friend,

You burn and flicker everything in my very essence

You linger, and find me, you know me 

Oh you know me so well

The contours of my neck,

Every cell 

And my eyes, you always loved my eyes 

Where we’d meet every time;

Where I’d plead you leave me be

Lose me.

You had me swimming through glue 

Oh dear friend,

If you love me, become a stranger,

A beloved stranger.

Paint for me, fill my pages, lace me into you

Let us bleed. 

And that’s when you smirked at me,

Wiped my cheeks,

“They only go hand in hand my dear”

Until we meet again.