A Shadow in Yucatan by Philippa Rees

Author:Philippa Rees
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: grief and loss, florida mythology, jewish identity in america, grand central station, poignant love story, maturity and understanding, poetic intimacy, sixties fiction

The Wisdom of Solomon

My world is swaddled in bandages, wheeled in a crescent dark boat.

It splints its feet in knitted boots, its fingers shackled in lace.

Its candid eyes are pin-tucked skies...

but patchwork scars its face.

Oh for a lifting lung and the slip-stream escape from the wave!

I would be anything but human.

Have we wriggled so far to be snared in warm blood featherless, to assume dominion over those that are free?

Free to succumb in unthinking endeavour

A nest too slap-happy for wind,

an unduly severe winter...

a dearth of flying food.

Foresight and intelligence!

Why not beak or claw?

The well polished horns of conflict

impale all skidding hope.

I can choose what has been chosen, confine a bright bold life in a barred cell of circumstance, fed on a selfish breast of fierce and dogged watchfulness.

A twisted spoon of anguish, to feed skimmed, or curdled milk.

My love I will set you afloat in a basket of weed

Commit you in prayer to the eddying sea...

My life will be brined in well bruised salt

It will numb the fluent tongue.

The songs it sings will be fractured strings.

Its colour sponges of grey.

But the moon will slice six blades of blood

first, my darling one.

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