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Our Ritual Distance |
| Section: THE ARTS / POETRY |
| Author: Jean Emerson |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1989 |
| Size: 347 Words, 2,319 Characters |
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The Grandmother Books
I am driven into this small corner of my life
Forced to steal these thin morning hours
I listen to the warm purr of the refrigerator
And unfold like a rain lily after a summer squall
I remember the circle of smooth black birds
Feel the updraft and the...
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...ew their name. If she
ever remembered the day I gathered
her an armload of them. I remember yet
that she put them in her wedgewood vase and did not
mention that picking wildflowers interfered
with the process of nature. I remember
the almost no smell of clover and home
Shadow dancing comes to mind. Our ritual
circles. Our Ritual distance. After time
and space and death we circle still.
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