Auguries of Innocence by Patti Smith

Author:Patti Smith [Smith, Patti]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780061982675
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The band tightened

around my head

slid, encircled my wrist.

I couldn’t write

couldn’t grasp

a single thing

not word

nor world

just time

beading

a long

fragile

string.

When you snap

a neck

something stops

turning in

a jewel box

beneath a hammered lid.

We met in the spring house

enacted our play

slept in a tent of sheets

and dreamed of the desert.

We heard the call to prayer

and the sky was magic.

Men were leading camels.

We knelt in the thorny scrub

and when I awoke

there were scratches

on my knees.

And never again

will vision be so acute

that dreams could

produce blood

a thorny path

littered with wings.

If we tape them

to our shoulders

surely we could fly.

We would be free

like the hoopoe

like the curlew

singing in spring.

Are you coming

my sister?

Are you coming?

Mother’s better.

We are flying

on our own

flapping

up and down

up and down

discarding

sweaters

baring

arms.

Oh

to be

so small.

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