Any Heart Breaking Over the World Is
ANY HEART BREAKING OVER THE WORLD IS
to the once and shining, Russia-
to Vladimir Ashkenazy's beautiful interpretation of Prokofiev's Cinderella...
any heart breaking over the world is
breaking off in mid-sentence
still, I believe in words:
in music tuned from words
in words inlaid in music
emerging with farthest meanings;
reduced to no one's ashes.
don't chronicle what no one
can endure, we'll be our own
country - after all - and
I will embroider former themes
while the birds come back
to the right trees
and lachrymose clouds are scattered
in cross-stitch across
a silver-threaded moon
or just lie down in a simple field
to speak my sonnets to an ear of corn
but my secrets reach the ear of the king
and life shears off
again with little warning...
yet-
my fairytale's not wound
on that spool forever,
I say
surveying the star-flecked tulle
in the closet
or the watered silks packed away
in too-opalescent legends of
the snow child's disappearance:
defending to the end
her hand-stitched manuscripts,
oh firebird lamentations, you know that I am.
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poem by Mary Douglas
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