Haris Psarras was born in 1982. He has published two collections of poetry, Hand-made Matches (2002) and In the Circle’s Embrace (2004).

APPROACH

My sorrow at meeting
“by dying will come”
lying on death’s
touch that matures you.
It’s body extreme white
swans’ pining feather down
of the fearful dawn
the white-heart cherry lip
of delightful joy.
Decay running thread
bares her breast
plunging in the mirror’s
shooting star glances.
Lowering the earth speechless
it leapt into the dispersion
moving and remains
to live its destruction that
the writing may be obscured.
Point of homecoming approached
in time to which soul
and body and love’s
alertness is given…
In a newly-created sky’s
puberty to sun itself.
It lay down and slept.