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.
SORROW
I was asleep
when the rooster slid down
from his weathervane tower
lacing his feathers
with silver and gold,
crowing so proudly
the sun bounced from the sky
and fell on my bed
through my open window.
He forged brazen sunflowers,
wreathed them about me
in royal display
until one roughened head
scraped his stiffened sepals
over my lips
drawing blood.
I opened my eyes.
Sun, sunflowers and rooster
dimmed into dust
as I reached for your hand
and remembered
where you had gone.
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.