Arsenic Lobster
poetry journal |
Issue Fifteen Winter 2007 |
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What Precedes a Dash For Emily D. Jess Wigent brave June nests not in fringes of summer her secret breeze thirsts for crowded shores prays for fewer bees a boy, mind the breeze, a secret voice blue June homesick for fall June give the father a history of robins, mind the scarf of heaven, June give the boy a name the robin observes a father tell him June tell him of the anguish of robins, tell him "see the sister's willing illness" a sister, mind the breeze, a secret robin go away June trained to partake in tears on land, to eye the back pain of heaven, June you love the haze were love planted there as feet here come back June, a death carol nests below the robin the boy observes a seraph, even the deer partake in red woe |