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EVERYONE'S WRITING GRANDFATHER POEMS

Groping
       in the razzle-dazzle
                of man-made suns,
the poet grasps Grandfather's hard hand
                until bone
patterns living flesh and
the entire skeleton sheds soil,
heaves upwards
rises in a fountain of the past,
       clatters into
                bright images
                          across dark pages.

The poet resurrects
       other palisades -
                grandmothers, uncles, aunts,
yet the terror of NOW
                in a whirlwind universe		
                            grips and whips him
to howling like coyote
at long eclipsed moons
over disturbed graves.

      

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Copyright 1989 by Mildred A. Rose,

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Originally published by The Music House Press.
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except in short reviews, without the
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