Second Story
index:
year of the dragon
shadows
dark rider
springleaving
age
fring spever
snow
crazy horse mountain
departure
child song
song for parents
nightcapers
six love poems
potree
impossible
the river
buffalo trail
second story
sorrow
relativity
denial
lovers
mountainman
april
at needle point
the clearing
north wind
puddles
hall stairs
river crossed
autumn trees
dragonfly
meadowlark
twisting
sea endlessly
moonlit hills
finish so smooth
flower song
ackknowledgements
about Mildred Rose
For T.A.R.
DENIAL
Under a circle
of unchanging sky,
morning, noon, night,
we float,
our ice floe (lovely
rainbow in the everlasting
sun) pitching in waves
and reaching nowhere
in an arctic sea.
Yesterday we shared
our last biscuit;
today melt water
sucked through
swollen lips.
I whisper,
"If I'm first . . . "
Your hand across my mouth
halts sound with never.
But under my ring, the skin
is stained green.
Second Story
by Mildred A. Rose
The
Mildred Rose
Collection
Copyright 1976 by Mildred A. Rose,
all rights reserved.
Originally published by The Music House Press.
No part of this collection may be reproduced,
except in short reviews, without the
author's permission.