Kenneth Edward Hart

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Hans and Clavdia

February 23, 2012 by Kenneth Hart

The Structure of the arms corresponds with the structure of the legs.

Thomas Mann

from The Magic Mountain

 

The picture hangs on a fading wall.

From the time they were born, they could never die

And only her image has filled his eyes.

 

How they have grown so fast, so old.

He says, “You don’t look as bad as I do.”

She answers him always with a smile.

“Remember the rude hands that poked at me, here?

Remember how they laughed?”

He remembers nothing but her face,

her worldly  look and her slender waist

that gathers her white legs in

while her arms are held out to him.

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