Nightingale & Sparrow

Gaga

Gaga

Anca Vlasopolos

in gentle Surrey Exeter
lands where I have a tongue

still

among birds plying melodies
I have not learned
flowers leaves for me
nameless
stretching to this sun

I am left
half-voiced
can call
like infants or other foreigners
without whole roundness
name sweetie on the tongue
only
from wonder
and delight

[Anca Vlasopolos]