The following three poems are from the cycle A Universal Theory of Love by Amadé Esperer who  read selected poems of this cycle at the Kritya Poetry Fesitval  2020 organized by Rati Saxena, Kerala, India.

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Still Life

There we lay, two pared orange-

halves, still sticky and full of juice the fingers

resting deep in the other‘ s flesh

softly forgetting

for a blink of an eyelash not feeling

the knife, which was ready for us

to finish the peeling, flash in the sunlight

Home I Suddenly Found There

Once I lingered longer at the window

outside: the summer undecided

floating in twilight …

I lifted my eyes up over the hillside

there they ignited the gloomy clouds

a ravishing light overcame

everyday’s dry gray:

The deeper I looked, the better I saw

your graceful image ascending sky high

Escaping the Opera

Remember standing with me in the dark, escaping?

Or did we drown in the wild currents of the music

of that show? You know, all

these big-shot’s bigoted looks undressing you

skeletonizing me. Nudes they always like, for good

or worse, they tend to take each opera for real,

they always take for real what they want …We left

before the story’s stony ghost appeared

and some olden onlooker would collapse

in need of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation

Questo è il fin di chi fa mal … This time

we were off duty, only prone to each other’s loving

mouth, and yet, we couldn’t tell the undercurrents

of a single cell involved in our heat exchanging fervor