Love poem about people elsewhere

ZEO

A new eve,

the first of many with you.

Counting my blessings

and the crispness.

Yellow the moon,

like a citrus disc

fixed above us -

sour as anything -

hung on your tongue

with all the fresh promise of

the coming year.


I am from nowhere

I am from anywhere

from somewhere called the underbelow.

I am a man crazed

I am the thief of a boy,

he the thief of the radiance

of the moon’s eye - 

that bulbous orb of the night sky,

a friend waiting between dark folds.


Did you find me or

find your way back to me?

Golden, rare,

marbled as water and oil,

we seem a set, a pair.

Should I lose you,

I can wander as far as I need

to come home to you.


I will thunder up the great mountains

and cascade the valleys,

sing at every high and low place.

I’ll tell it on the tongues of animals

and the wind.

And I know you’ll hear me,

just as you hear me now,

right beside you as I am

and as I will be.

 ZEO is a multimedia artist based in Oxford and London. Their practice centres on self-portraits, poetry comics and family photographs salvaged from house clearances. ZEO’s work plays with scripture, dreamscapes and amplified internal monologues, exploring subjects such as gender, embodiment and the tension between public and private religion.

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