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Ballade with Christine de Pisan
Seulete suy I am a small woman
wanting seulete
to be alone
seulete the way my sweetheart left me
seulete without companion, without
master
seulete grieving angrily, wakefully
seulete more lost than anyone
seulete the way he left me.
Seulete
Alone at doors and windows
seulete and in blind corners
seulete I feed on tears
seulete some soft, some loud
seulete it suits me best
seulete to be closed inside a room
seulete the way he left me.
In whatever place
seulete
I wander seulete
more alone seulete
than any creature seulete
and I am sunk seulete
in frequent weeping seulete
Prince, seulete suy
sorrow begins
seulete surrounds
seulete and darkens me like fruit
seulete the way he left me.
Poem by Sarah White
http://www.sarahwhitepages.com/index.html
Published in Cleopatra Haunts the Hudson (Spuyten Duyvil, 2007)
http://www.amazon.com/Cleopatra-Haunts-Hudson-Sarah-White/dp/1933132299
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