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Pastimes : Calling all SI Poets
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To: MSB who wrote (1246)2/3/1998 8:09:00 PM
From: MSB  Read Replies (1) of 2095
 
"it's the key to the one real door
it opens the water and the sky both at once
it's already in the downward river
with my hand on it
my real hand

and I am saying to the hand
turn

open the river"

W. S. Merwin

Father's Day

If you come here I will take us down this river,
maybe almost to the end.

The words I want to say lay locked
35 years now, folded on each other

like some great patchwork tapestry
hidden away in a trunk that never sees light.

Fathers and daughters
do not have easy voices, one

shapes another's love
so greatly, the other echoes

mother, loved or hated
always there is the shadow of sex

and the litany of images, caught
like silvered beads

these mean nothing to me;
these mean everything to me.

Woman Wilde

(Posted with prior permission from the author)
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