The Dream of Reason by Jenny George

Author:Jenny George
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2018-04-09T00:00:00+00:00

First Day of Lent

You make room for the silence

and so it fills you, comes in like the sea

through a great door.

What you give away returns.

The two halves of the world.

I fill the grain bucket with grain.

The water bucket with water.

I find a calf dead in the barn

—heavy as a sleeping boy—

and I bury him under the field,

down where the rain is kept.

The River

The lambs I curled like twins

and laid into their boats. I stuffed their ears

with the woolly sound of sleep.

The pigs I showered with white carnations.

The cows I placed cut branches over, green parasols

fluttering on the stems. All the dead

becalmed in their vessels, sent onto the river.

The river was a murmur of many boats drifting.

Petals in the eddies, creak of prow against stern…

The parade grew large between the banks.

Then there were only boats, boats

and the sound of water beneath them.

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