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The Eclectic Pen - Prayer

By: Eva L. (wearetrees)   + 37 more  
Date Submitted: 5/9/2008
Genre: Literature & Fiction » Poetry
Words: 158
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Wooden beads round her invisible mouth Memory sharp and taut, laughing at her goal to surrender She wakes me intermittently – tells me she’s found her children but they’re cold and they’re hungry And their eyes are dull like diamonds in the rough There are cracks in the pavement where their fingers smuggle seeds Like little deities to adorn in fabric and flour And sometimes no flour at all Her ankles fat from walking Kilometers in her head What can I know about these milestones Except that they’re mine without my asking Flowers, forbidden truths – songs sold on the market block like the summer’s harvest And sometimes no harvest at all My human sister Escapes the plague but buries her life in her hands – no longer to clutch her children or beseech the gods for fire strength to keep her going Don’t matter if it’s borrowed or remote She creeps into my sleep and enfolds me Like grain like soil my guts dense like relics from the ancestral hearth – there’s something stunted -- something rude inside Lips poised to recite a living song to the dawn And sometimes no dawn at all

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