An uncommitted gesture, a rapt expression,

moves something in the death of things,

among the hardened cries,

the smells of love that is over,

the women without shadows,

the shells of no one.

It is not a life full of holes

dripping and leaving stains,

it is not a forgotten name

trying to get loose from its object.

A gesture held up by nothing

has strayed into death,

more alone than things,

more alone than names

when they are left alone.