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When We Were Through
Vol. 81, No. 2, Summer 2007 p. 164
a poem by Susan Firer

Our bed filled with lilies
and vowels the color of indigo buntings
and other epiphanic terrors.
We were creating this
plural. We genie polished & stretched
muscles’ roses, the origami of
spine and limbs, and rushing breaths.

It seems our job is to disperse
the mind around us--
bolts of sky, cells’ silly scribbles,
pergolas of grief. Let bodies
consecrate then disappear, reduce
all to a single vowel
the size of a vole’s skull.