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Mourning Song
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Mourning Song

 


Reading by Dr. Edward Vargo

 
 
Love set you going like a fat gold watch.  
The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry
Took its place among the elements.
 
Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue.
In a drafty museum, your nakedness 5
Shadows out safty. We stand round blankly as walls
 
I'm no more your mother
Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow
Effacement at the wind's hand.
 
All night your moth-breath 10
Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen:
A far sea moves in my ear.
 
One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral
In my Victorian nightgown.
Your mouth opens clean as a cat's. The window square 15
 
Whitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try
Your handful of notes:
The clear vowels rise like ballons.
 
   
 
   
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