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   "View from the Labyrinth" 
                   Selected Poems 
    
                                by 
                  
Janine Manatis

aimless  aimless  aimless                                                                                                                                                                                                 

wanderer

child

in the dark soft

woods of night.

Where are you going?

you hunt among the

jasmine spray and

purple blue bells

lost

along the

taken way.

Where is your home?

hurryinfromshowersofrainandsunray

won’t help you.

coverupfromwindandpain

will only lead you                

                        farther

                              down

                                   the

                                     darkened

                                                lane

                                                   from where you came

an aimless aimless aimless

wanderer

Stand still and

See in the midst

Only breath

To know your

Fear amiss

you are always a 

wanderer

till

you can a

pilgrim

be.
         


                                                 

                     I will be myself

                    If I can find me

                That I swear to you

                    This very day

                  But if not me

               Then while I’m looking

                             Who?

            




Spread out across the balding head of love

                            the hairs of innocence.

             I know there are only a few

             Blood-clotted and snarled

             Where the frantic hands of time

                          comb through.

             Sincerely, keep the wind soft, I say

                        not to blow what’s left

             Away like petals of a flower that

                        once was.


                        

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All Poems Copyright - Janine Manatis

                      "INCIDENT"

there was the Fall: by the light on the air; even by the air: its indifference. the glare wrapping everything in unreality. sounds muggled. birds leaving distantly in groups their shrill instructions carried high beyond the church spire. yet no leaf had fallen...
 

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