Here's a mystery quote from one of my favourite poets:
"...She sat silent in her father's house,
learning Swahili from a book with pages fragile as onion skins
and making her trousseau in scandalous coral-coloured silk...
...The day we buried her the sky drooped
with a cloud, low and soft as a goose belly.
In each clod of earth that fell on her coffin
I could hear the popping stab
of a needle pushing into silk
held taut between determined fingers."
I'll be back later on this week to reveal their identity. In the meantime, any guesses...?!
Good Friday Prayer for all flesh and blood nailed upto hang and blacken in
the windas a warning to others for crow and fox and humanpest or enemy or
convic...
Dear Matthew
ReplyDeleteI would guess that it's a female poet who has lost a loved relative. Am I close?
Best wishes from Simon R. Gladdish
See my next post...;-)
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