Answer to Larkin

Children carry parents’ tears,
the yokes of their mistakes –
they saunter wryly through the years
and make their jokes.

– Silke Heiss


Sunrise

A quiet seagull couple
– floating in a flood
of light –
dipping heads, nipping
struggling, feelery things,
nodding necks, to get them down.

Cold feet (not theirs)
on the sand, in the blood
of this moment.

– Silke Heiss