Love poem about people elsewhere
ZEO
A new eve,
the first of many with you.
Counting my blessings
and the crispness.
Yellow the moon,
like a citrus disc
fixed above us -
sour as anything -
hung on your tongue
with all the fresh promise of
the coming year.
I am from nowhere
I am from anywhere
from somewhere called the underbelow.
I am a man crazed
I am the thief of a boy,
he the thief of the radiance
of the moon’s eye -
that bulbous orb of the night sky,
a friend waiting between dark folds.
Did you find me or
find your way back to me?
Golden, rare,
marbled as water and oil,
we seem a set, a pair.
Should I lose you,
I can wander as far as I need
to come home to you.
I will thunder up the great mountains
and cascade the valleys,
sing at every high and low place.
I’ll tell it on the tongues of animals
and the wind.
And I know you’ll hear me,
just as you hear me now,
right beside you as I am
and as I will be.
ZEO is a multimedia artist based in Oxford and London. Their practice centres on self-portraits, poetry comics and family photographs salvaged from house clearances. ZEO’s work plays with scripture, dreamscapes and amplified internal monologues, exploring subjects such as gender, embodiment and the tension between public and private religion.