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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RED HILLS AND SKY, by JANE MILLER Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandmother is dirt and I am desert
Last Line: Tell me who has not been quieted by this.
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Deserts; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Food & Eating
First Line: My grandmother is dirt and I am desert
Last Line: Tell me who has not been quieted by this.
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Deserts; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Food & Eating
My grandmother is dirt and I am desert.
Dusk. The datura unnerves me.
I ride out to violate the baked earth.
Hear the gray sage, how its hairs bristle in wind.
I know distance is a woman I must cover at night,
smoothing her clay shawl.
I ride with my angry kiss in my mouth
until I am forced to stop:
red hollyhock against bright blue larkspur,
tell me who has not been quieted by this.
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