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Helen Ivory

WAITING FOR BLUEBEARD

WAITING FOR BLUEBEARD

WAITING FOR BLUEBEARD

The child in the garden wears a coat
collaged from the skins of paper,
sutured with lengths of my hair.
I am inside the house
in a matching coat.
 
There is no one to tell us not to;
called here, as we were
by the halloo of peacocks
who turned tail
the day we arrived.
 
We are waiting for Bluebeard,
and when he happens here
in his grey-silver car,
he will unleash wolves
like rain.
Helen Ivory

Helen Ivory

(Verenigd Koninkrijk, 1969)

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WAITING FOR BLUEBEARD

The child in the garden wears a coat
collaged from the skins of paper,
sutured with lengths of my hair.
I am inside the house
in a matching coat.
 
There is no one to tell us not to;
called here, as we were
by the halloo of peacocks
who turned tail
the day we arrived.
 
We are waiting for Bluebeard,
and when he happens here
in his grey-silver car,
he will unleash wolves
like rain.

WAITING FOR BLUEBEARD

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