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.
STOREY
SECOND
REY
STO
OND
SEC
The second storey clothes press
is full of skeletons,
not all of them mine, but each too large
and too private
for the hall closet
downstairs.
Open the door cautiously.
Slide in
between tall leg bones
(connected to hip bones,
connected to . . . )
Wait!
Perhaps you may escape
Inclusion
If you shout prayers
Loud enough to be heard
Over the rattle of dry bones.
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.