Hot Pot Magazine

By Michael Borth

When you loved your body.
When no one else could.
Articulated bones under shale.
Blue town collected unto selfhood.

It Was and It Is. The Omega
Of burned afternoons.
Das sehnen. Longing.
Precious little insignia on the wall.

It stays to Re Mind.
To quiet a drugged aeon.
Hunter tracks in the snow
Became Buenos Aires blow.

Light The Future
Instead of The Past.
It can become a gymnastic.
A diamond sacrum of palatial weather.

Michael Borth is the author of The World Dreamer (DFL Lit). He is currently based on Kefalonia.