55. Sehnsucht

Out of the slant of window,
regarding fiercely;
the postman will not come!
It is Saturday.

Customs, duty, HST:
words jumble, clatter noiselessly;
meanwhile countless other packages
are likely similarly detained –

lost?
Mis-delivered to Thailand,
perhaps.
Taking the “scenic”
route

Buybuybuy
filling the emptiness with
things

Longing:

I thought it would be easy
to condense, to distil all of it
into a person, into a Utopia
of sunlight; that citadel of
Childhood;
or in work, in
work of all kinds –

Workworkwork

else we dwell in follies,
in goods reading
“undeliverable”,
dead letters
we wrote ourselves
while we wait,
in suspension

Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer,
Caspar David Friedrich, 1818

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