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Poems
I’m currently submitting poems for publication, so I’ve removed my NaPo 2008 efforts.
Here are links to the poems that have been published online, however:
The Carpenter Brings Lily Home (1924)
The blue wood snapped the white and made it glitter
in April’s sun. His mother baffled cakes,
whipped whites of egg and sugar into peaks,
dropped hard-earned almond essence into batter
and sang it into flavour.
The Barefoot Muse, Issue 7, Summer 2008
Sevenling: The Widow Addresses Her Late Husband
Without you, I’m a bell without a clapper,
a whistle without its pea,
a drum without a head.
The Avatar Review, Vol. 10, June 2008
Sevenling: Flying South for Winter
The Cambridge autumn glowed.
The maples dressed in gold.
The robins were all widowed.
Sevenling: Rock Star
Sevenling: You Dream
You dream of slips, slits, buttonholes,
an Atwood poem, an unhooked eye,
a big bed growing cold.
But Lily’s life, filed sharp by fate,
ripped that bright redemption.
Light scattered all around the yard.
The chickens pecked and clawed.
Shit Creek Review/II v.4 July 2007
The Scotsman Gives Lily her Name (1904)
He named her Lily, for her whiteness,
but her eyes held secrets, dark as lakes
that swallowed sons beneath their waves.
Calabash 2.2 Summer/Fall 2003 (.pdf document)
The Seamstress Teaches Lily How to Sew (1910)
Lily dropped the strays in tumbling heaps
on table corners and broken chairs, fiddled
them into piles. Naomi lit the lamp, picked a thimble,
sat Lily beside her, and patched scraps together.
By lamplight they stitched riddles of their own.
The Caribbean Writer Vol. 16 2001