SONG SENT TO THE BODY OF MY MOTHER AND RETURNED AS MOONLIGHT
Susanna Galbraith
Love
let go
is
a patient
let go
an oyster-shell
like
a question
O
let go a visit
go
g o
once about the house fell
time
time time
time
time
that drop on your plate
time time
and a hundred
revisions
of tea
oo o o go
g o
I know
have known
have measured out life
on a pin
I
should begin
but
o
I know
the lamplight
makes me
lie
and how
shall I say, I have
watched
O lonely
ragged
sleep
here beside you
but have wept wept prayed
in short was afraid
after all
the cups
of you
to bit e
to have the universe
to roll toward overwhelming
to say come
come back
and so much more
at times
fool
I grow I
I
I
I
I
I do not think
when the wind blows
the sea
t o us we drown.