A carpet raveling on the loom a girl with a widowspeak and misty legs a moon like a fisheye rising from a pool a black longwinging loon bursting afire in the sunset a torn sail groveling in a wave a whisper in a stairwell a helmet upturned in the black rain and later a star reflected like a coin glimmering on seastones a sound of motors and machineguns in the dawn a kiss and candleflame a sonata for clarinet a bone cracking a woman wearing a blue veil and in kashan in a room where the little darkeyed weaving girls lay down and died a carpet raveling on a loom. Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org |