Tuesday, May 29, 2007

News at Eleven: It rained

the whole time we were laying her down;
Rained from church to grave when we put her down.
The suck of mud at our feet was a hollow sound.

The woman being buried is, one presumes, the poet's mother, but Native Guard doesn't have the whiff of the personal the way so much contemporary poetry does.

from The Philadelphia Inquirer: Poems give voice to the forgotten

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