18 February 2014

Suvantosilta Bridge over the River Pielisjoki in Joensuu (Finland)

lower the bridge and keep it down

let rage and its dark gestures in
let in good and evil
and that which mediates
between them
which is to say
the truth this pendulum
let fire in with or without rain
and women with or without a past
let work in and above all leisure
that right to dream
that rainbow

lower the bridge and keep it down
...

Poem Against Drawbridges
Mario Beneditti