Poem
Nicolette Stasko
Poem for Jessica
Poem for Jessica
Poem for Jessica
The time for flowers has passedand we are left with each other
the hard and the soft of it
I am your mother
nothing else is clear
between you and me.
I take you out in the sun
pale grub
dug out of dark earth
birth sadness seeps in.
Your soft breath flickers and
I am like an eye
closing against pain
a progression of faces,
all of them,
none of them, yours
We are like reeds by the sea
a lattice only
at the whim of storms, the seasons,
a basket holding sky,
at times empty.
From: Glass Cathedrals: New and Selected poems
Publisher: Salt Publishing, Cambridge
Publisher: Salt Publishing, Cambridge
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Poem for Jessica
The time for flowers has passedand we are left with each other
the hard and the soft of it
I am your mother
nothing else is clear
between you and me.
I take you out in the sun
pale grub
dug out of dark earth
birth sadness seeps in.
Your soft breath flickers and
I am like an eye
closing against pain
a progression of faces,
all of them,
none of them, yours
We are like reeds by the sea
a lattice only
at the whim of storms, the seasons,
a basket holding sky,
at times empty.
From: Glass Cathedrals: New and Selected poems
Poem for Jessica
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