Sun-Up and Other Poems
DEDICATION
SUN-UP
I. CELIA
II. THE ALLEY
III. MAMA
IV. BETTY
V. JUDE
MONOLOGUES
WINDOWS
SECRETS
PORTRAITS
SONS OF BELIAL
REVEILLE
This etext was produced by Catherine Daly.
(To my Mother)
Let me cradle myself back
Into the darkness
Of the half shapes...
Of the cauled beginnings...
Let me stir the attar of unused air,
Elusive... ironically fragrant
As a dead queen's kerchief...
Let me blow the dust from off you...
Resurrect your breath
Lying limp as a fan
In a dead queen's hand.
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