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To: HG who wrote (9942)12/14/2002 6:28:15 PM
From: Volsi Mimir  Read Replies (1) of 13018
 
Nocturne
~Marge Piercy

A vase of peonies in a dark room:
I bury my face in their fragrance.
They are as cool as the underside
of a waterlily pad
that stares through jade smooth depths;
as cool as the touch of a marble ledge;
as the languid fringed ferns
the droop feathery tassels
in the basement of the forest;
as chill as the hand
the wandering moon lays on my arm at night.

They are as white
in the hot thick blackness of the room
as mild spilled in the shade;
as white as the mute swans
bowing over their reflections
while I watch from a cobblestone bridge
where the wind runs through my hair.

But in the center of each white fountain
stand a few crimson ears of petals
as if someone had laid a hand there
and bled a few bright drops,
as if someone had tried, for an instant
to cool the fever of pain
in the whiteness of the peony
stumbling to its moon
through a dark room.
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