Poem
Frances Presley
OTHERY COPE
OTHERY COPE
OTHERY COPE
Who’s that a-sewing?Ann the restorator
What’s she a-sewing?
Ask the restorator
A cope of the (indecipherable) sun
She was clothed with cords
and t ties
twisting out the sweating
minor volcanic
in the sewers of the ruins
the daughter-house
of the rere dorter
harebells in the runis
Who’s that a-sewing?
Ann the restorator
What’s she a-sewing?
Ask the restorator
A cloak of the (indecipherable) son
She was clothed with the sun
Mary the Virgin, Mary the engine
Origin and trenchant
More guy ses than sh®ines
she is the plasmic centre stitches a-bursting
closed with the one pome
granate
Who made the patches?
Who defines _______ the outlines?
Ann the restorator
Split between cope and car
2
Window through window
Push over Dis/
Solution
In the blue sky Scriptorum
Lady Justice said to me
She said, Christine
Tell me the truth
She said Tell me the truth
Show me the City
Show me the City
Of Ladies that you’ve built
Then Lady Justice
Led the Queen of Heaven
Into the highest tower
To greet all of us
She is clothed with a book
leaves dangling from her ear lobes
doubling her chin
folding on her belly
dancing on her navel
tasted with her seeds
pages gripped prehensile
letters on her (indecipherable)
scroll
CHORUS
© 2004, Frances Presley
From: Paravane: New and Selected Poems 1996-2003
Publisher: Salt, Cambridge
From: Paravane: New and Selected Poems 1996-2003
Publisher: Salt, Cambridge
Frances Presley
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1952)
The great majority of Frances Presley’s work is gathered into the last two volumes mentioned below, which thus represent a kind of Collected Poems: Paravane: New & Selected Poems 1996-2003 (Salt Publishing, Cambridge, 2004) and Myne: new and selected poems and prose 1976-2005 (Shearsman Books, Exeter, 2006). Her work might best be described as “feminist experimental”, but her work also has clea...
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OTHERY COPE
Who’s that a-sewing?Ann the restorator
What’s she a-sewing?
Ask the restorator
A cope of the (indecipherable) sun
She was clothed with cords
and t ties
twisting out the sweating
minor volcanic
in the sewers of the ruins
the daughter-house
of the rere dorter
harebells in the runis
Who’s that a-sewing?
Ann the restorator
What’s she a-sewing?
Ask the restorator
A cloak of the (indecipherable) son
She was clothed with the sun
Mary the Virgin, Mary the engine
Origin and trenchant
More guy ses than sh®ines
she is the plasmic centre stitches a-bursting
closed with the one pome
granate
Who made the patches?
Who defines _______ the outlines?
Ann the restorator
Split between cope and car
2
Window through window
Push over Dis/
Solution
In the blue sky Scriptorum
Lady Justice said to me
She said, Christine
Tell me the truth
She said Tell me the truth
Show me the City
Show me the City
Of Ladies that you’ve built
Then Lady Justice
Led the Queen of Heaven
Into the highest tower
To greet all of us
She is clothed with a book
leaves dangling from her ear lobes
doubling her chin
folding on her belly
dancing on her navel
tasted with her seeds
pages gripped prehensile
letters on her (indecipherable)
scroll
CHORUS
From: Paravane: New and Selected Poems 1996-2003
OTHERY COPE
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