vespertine clementine
		-------------------------------------------------------

		oh domestically
		and internationally
		unreachable friend of mine
		you are sooo
		vespertine

		this must be
		due to our time differences
		my time frazzles and sizzles
		slightly apart from yours
		but is that enough
		to make you shine
		and me, flicker?

		they say you murder english
		what do they know
		you bring half-japanese accents
		to both the southern and northern
		fulmar of your words

		how impoverished would be
		our continued state of emergency
		bereft of your lilting teutonicity

		the glaciers of hudson
		live in fridgidaires alone
		the grassy stones of your island
		go mostly unimagined
		by those who have not trajected myrdalssandur
		or breathed the breeze of vopnafjordur
		or merely glimpsed the distant white of esja
		while safely cocooned in the 101 revelry town

		you have reawakened our anticipation
		we are awaiting your new music
		come prance and dance on nearby stages
		we want to hear your mouth bloom
		from manyfold speakers
		again proudly taking ownership
		in the unraveled you

		oh mamma min.


			Marek Lugowski
			10 May 2001
			Evanston, Illinois