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Your skin is translucent in the still air of this room.
Clay is prerogative; eyes are derivative.
We live in the shadows of immense hands
like death that will take our sex away.
Bridal days and wedding nights of grace and youth
and doors opening in women.
Music is a child of the grass
and teaches us the cost of frostbite.
We can't separate the misunderstandings
or wash dishes in the music-box.
We talk too much and spend the word on our burning hands.
A cinder of a joke catches in our throat
and you laugh to hold onto the hurrying waters.
A fern is a fan that resembles a rainbow
and the last ghosts of Indians are asking for food
in the amber waves of dying grain.
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Daniela Gioseffi is author of nine books of poetry and
prose from major, alternative and university presses. Women
on War won the 1990 American Book Award. On
Prejudice: A Global Perspective won a grant award from The Ploughshares
Fund World Peace Foundation. Her collections of poems are World
Wounds & Water Flowers and Eggs
in the Lake
Gioseffi has published her work in numerous literary magazines
and anthologies, among them The Paris Review, The Nation,
Chelsea, and MS.
She a member of The National Book Critics Circle and edits
Wise Women's
Web a magazine of literature and graphics. Her recent book of stories
& novella from Avisson Press, Greensboro, NC. 1997, is titled In
Bed with the Exotic Enemy.
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