Carol Muske-Dukes
Carol Muske-Dukes Poems
- Ex-Embassy Sometimes, at dawn, I think I hear ...
- Failure to Thrive O the body's much ballyhoo'd right to be ...
- An Octave Above Thunder ... reverberation Of thunder ...
- Like This -- Morituri te salutamus. Los Angeles...
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An Octave Above Thunder
... reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience.
--T. S. Eliot,
"What the Thunder Said"
1
She began as we huddled, six of us,
in the cellar, raising her voice above
those towering syllables...
Never mind she cried when storm candles
flickered, glass shattered upstairs.
Reciting as if on horseback,
she whipped the meter,
trampling rhyme, reining in the reins
of the air with her left hand as ...
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