LOVE IS THE SILENCE
POEMS BY STUART Z PERKOFF
Selected Work by Venice Poets

love is the silence out of which
woman speaks. the female
country. the grieving country.

i stole
those images from a
wild girl's mouth. i am a
witch. i deal with
death. she sd. i
struggle against it.
the poem
is my struggle, i sd. a different
craft.

tho once i hungered
where the two crafts cross
to take within my hands
that power
& heat it
at will.

her lips moved in the dark room. blue with
kissing that cold. woman is
silence, she sd.
a different craft.

Stuart Z. Perkoff

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