Blood Lyrics by Katie Ford

Author:Katie Ford
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-55597-349-0
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2014-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

Before the war

the soul

spoke so clearly

we took it for an imbecile.

But now the war can’t know what it wants:

we make meals, pay a tax, and dream nothing

hard enough to wake us.

Not once have I dreamt of the war.

I forgot it quietly, unwantingly, and because

there were peaches everywhere, peaches

that shouldn’t have happened,

nor the idea of blessing at sundown,

the orchard lit into an avenue

of torchlight.

Still Life

Down by the pond, addicts sleep

on rocky grass half in water, half out,

and there the moon lights them

out of tawny silhouettes into the rarest

of amphibious flowers I once heard called striders,

between, but needing, two worlds.

Of what can you accuse them now,

beauty?

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