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Wrinkles – By Davide Trame

Published By Davide Trame • Jan 4th, 2009 • Category: Poetry

So many on my mother’s face,
it’s the age pattern I see
when she stumbles unworried bending forward
and comes close, to talk to me,
I see the skin map with its own shine
and its net of tracks and old suns,
the roots where I have slept and run.
She talks, river gurgling on pebbles,
and quietly invades me with her trimming
continents [...]