Posts Tagged ‘ poetry ’

a wing, a bone

Is it the cycle I’m in now, can you tell, abacus eyes? I journey through a territory that I half know,             half intimate - an insect on a spider’s brocade. Sacjawea traveled her dreamscape             with Lewis and Clark. Knowing the land like a song             of currents and rifts she took them...

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a part of Lena’s kaddish

Is that why we leave stones at the grave - to give weight to our memories and hold down the love that lingers through time and mistakes? There is a river in Yakutia with her name. In the winter it is a road; so people are not isolated by the season. And they are...

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Threads

“We must lose our mothers.”  That’s what they say. The words of my mother’s friend Sarah are always returning to me, like a Greek chorus, like the Miami Beach blues.  “We must lose our mothers.” If we must lose our mothers, do we also have to hear these words echo in our memories reminding...

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one of those streets

One of those streets             for the young woman killed in Newark the other day because she loved another             woman I was going to say this was one of those streets. Walkin’, talkin’, takin’ down the beat. It’s just that, I was a young girl there once too. Shopped on the weekends, pizza...

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A wing, a bone

Is it the cycle I’m in now, can you tell, abacus eyes? I journey through a territory that I half know,             half intimate - an insect on a spider’s brocade. Sacjawea traveled her dreamscape             with Lewis and Clark. Knowing the land like a song             of currents and rifts she took them...

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Hiroshige’s dream

Foxes waiting under a moonlit tree to become human have only parcels of land and the domed shadows of trees.  Do you know this as despair?  We all learned that the West was the frontier. As the...

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