11/10/13

O MOTHER
do you hear me
down the long white howl
of the white valley wind?

My mouth has arms
that reach down all this long valley,
over frozen waters and empty trees,
stiff in their February days.

O Mother, do you hear me?
Do you hear the white foot

of the rabbit -
a-thump    a-thump?


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