He is a delicate flower indeed
talk of the princess and the pea

Did he imagine that her letters
were written to him those ones

The ritual of the poem in praise of you
demands the vision of a goddess   an ap-

In the films when the couples kiss
they grind their lips together as

Rilke writes of the expectation
that a beloved is about to ap-

Could it be that I am the one
who is the false Dmitri the

I always feared that things
would end badly between us

For those little stabs of pain
in the region of the heart the

My theory that the people on both sides
of the mountain range were Brabers is a-

Next may rain leach discontents
From your dust, wash what remains