Flight: New and Selected Poems by Linda Bierds

Author:Linda Bierds
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US

Shawl: Dorothy Wordsworth at Eighty

Any strong emotion tempers my madnesses.

The death of beloveds. William in his fever-coat.

I reenter the world through a shallow door

and linger within it, conversations returning,

the lateral cycle of days.

I do not know what it is that removes me,

or sets me again at our long table, two crescents

of pike on a dark plate. But memory lives then,

and clarity. Near my back once again,

our room with a brook at the baseworks,

its stasis of butter and cheese. Or there,

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