National Poetry Month 2014: Eleni Zisimatos,

Remembering 
 
Missing, you are missing
the puzzle is you
I don’t know real from unreal
anymore
or maybe
I do.

That is the problem
knowing too much can
fuel infernal fires
undo the clasps
of a black gown

dropped.

I fall only to rise
I must be careful not to
over-extend

the choir of angels sings,
slow

Eleni Zisimatos writes, edits and reads. She is Co-editor-in-Chief of Vallum: Contemporary Poetry. Her work has been short-listed for the National Magazine Awards (in poetry) and the Robert Kroetsch Award. She currently lives in Montreal.