Lilies Without by Laura Kasischke

Author:Laura Kasischke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

God, do you hear that? That

bit of stitching in the wind? It

unravels when you listen.

Listen.

48.

The Debt Birds screeching, Insufficient!

Someone shoveling snow onto a fire.

A figure in a black suit swinging

a lantern through the dark

in arcs, coming

closer, and closer.

And my mother

standing by the lilac

(the lilac,

which is

the suburb’s lyric poem

about death) talking

to a man she never met. I

overhear him say, Whatever

crazy sorrow saith.

49.

“No one was crying, no one was bleeding,

but the mail had been dumped in the street, and

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