Poems of Raynette Eitel

1. 1. Memorial Day,1949 5/30/2010
2. Across the Years 1/28/2011
3. After the Knife 5/19/2010
4. Bassoon 5/31/2010
5. Broken Dreams 2/2/2011
6. Bury Me With Chocolates 2/11/2011
7. Choking On Rainbows 5/19/2010
8. Claire De Lune 1/31/2011
9. Classical Guitar 5/19/2010
10. Deep Time 2/7/2011
11. Dry Spell 2/1/2011
12. Echocardiogram 5/19/2010
13. Flowers From A Wedding 5/19/2010
14. Fog Holds Lights 4/5/2011
15. Frozen Songs 1/28/2011
16. Fugue 1/30/2011
17. Growing Old 6/1/2010
18. How To Critique A Poem 5/19/2010
19. I Could Stay 6/1/2010
20. In the Dream 5/19/2010

After the Knife

After the Knife

…and for the rest of her life,
that unwanted child came to her in dreams
walking without a sound on wounded feet.
There had been no rain
for forty days and forty nights
and the ground was hot.

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