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.



    DEDICATION


    (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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