ENachtigall
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bad boy left me suddenly, seasick
& a white elephant
upon my wing
feels blue on monday
strange & the odour
of some last night´s whore
crawls upon another lover´s
hip, I smell wedding day
seven words unspoken
in a box of cedar
shrinking, shaken, taken
fed to the elephant
white as my shoulder in winter
I might feed him snow, bad
boy, you made me feel - good
© elke nachtigall/2011
(white elephants sometimes refuse german poems )
& a white elephant
upon my wing
feels blue on monday
strange & the odour
of some last night´s whore
crawls upon another lover´s
hip, I smell wedding day
seven words unspoken
in a box of cedar
shrinking, shaken, taken
fed to the elephant
white as my shoulder in winter
I might feed him snow, bad
boy, you made me feel - good
© elke nachtigall/2011
(white elephants sometimes refuse german poems )