Friday, 4 January 2019

The Fairy and the Woodcutter - a poem by Chris Zachariou

A snow tiger prowling in the Korean mountains. A poem by the Cyprus poet Chris Zachariou based on an improbable love story.
A Siberian Snow Tiger



I want to seduce you
with gifts of Vincent's clouds
and handfuls of sweet red cherries

Together
we'll float to the edge of sanity
painting daisies inside Vincent's head

in a whirlwind of divine madness


But I know    I'm deluded

to you
I'm just a poor woodcutter
climbing on a beanstalk


No

No

I don't want to hear that story anymore
bring me Vincent's palette and his brushes

— Oh Vincent, Vincent my brother
      how I'm missing you these days —

it's too late for me to listen
to the songs of nearly dead cicadas


Nae sa-lang

I want you with cherry juices
running down your little breasts

I want you in the frenzied greed
of poet's jasmine and in the gasping
breaths of your unsated night

I want you beyond your limits
and your cry, beyond your scream
and your whispers

because

I'm the sun-god
the priest of ritual madness
and you the Siberian Tiger prowling
in the virgin snow lands


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