Kalypso

from Memorial Day : Fifty Demolitions by kurt van hook

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1

The canes up on the cliff
flash green and silver by the sea
but out of what is lost
grows something stronger next to me

an island in the sun tonight
I hardly hear her talk
from the faint drone of the surf
through the reeds I cannot walk

I am calypso
and i have lived alone
Here for ten thousand years
and ten thousand more

I am calypso

I will pretend to be

Your magic sanctuary

island in the sea

2
on a moonlit stretch of ocean
sand as white as bone
she floats with dreaming motions
with a sweetness there that grows

and her cheeks dusted
with a royal smile
and her gaze would look to sea
for ten thousand miles

I am calypso
and i have lived alone
Here for ten thousand years
and ten thousand more

I am calypso

I will pretend to be

Your magic sanctuary

island in the sea

———————————
3

on a silver coin
from royal memory.
a heart, a life is open to the sky
transparency

where sun and moon and midnights meet,
And light floods into morning
and then upon a crystal sea,
a universe reborn

I am calypso
and i have lived alone
Here for ten thousand years
and ten thousand more

I am calypso

I will pretend to be

Your magic sanctuary

island in the sea

——————————-

4

Saints and sailors saved from drowning

They came crashing into me
Find yourself upon the cover

Of a sporting magazine

now another morning light
They wave their hands and sail away
i can see and smell and feel the air
and taste the salt and spray

I am calypso
and i have lived alone
for ten thousand years
and ten thousand more

I am calypso
I will pretend to be
Your magic sanctuary

Kingdom by the sea

:

4

Saints and sailors saved from drowning

They came crashing into me
Find yourself upon the cover

Of a sporting magazine

now another morning light
They wave their hands and sail away
i can see and smell and feel the air
and taste the salt and spray

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from Memorial Day : Fifty Demolitions, released May 26, 2021

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