Caroline Lazar Poems

From Thursday afternoon Maths lessons
I remember geometry.

My body has become
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Cassandra sees the shadows round
the house of Atreus

She sees
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They are tainted sounds
Lockerbie, Dunblaine, Tianen Min
How long to soothe the wound?
Coventry, Stalingrad, Hiroshima
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Last night I dreamed a princess
pricked her finger on a spindle,
slept for a hundred years,
woke with a lover's kiss.
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The last High Queen of Ireland hears the voice of God,
just as her forefathers did.
He talks to her every day.
He tells her what
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Today I wear
my coat of many colours.
I need a mother's love
to enfold me, to keep me warm
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Always remember you are a child of stars.
Science lesson 1:
Every element
that makes you and your world
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by degrees you are rubbing me out

a put down here
an interruption there
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