Olga Cabral
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If this small human testament
completes its odyssey
clears the curtains of fiery meteors
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Chin on paws the night sleeps
a huge dark animal breathing
as earth keeps time breathing
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I am ironing the dress in which I ran from the prom
I am ironing my favorite dresses of long ago
I am ironing the dresses I did not have
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Lillian has just arisen from her chair.
She has gone into her garden to commune with snails
to answer the birds' questions.
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Because you were writing your poems backward
an ancient alphabet
from right to left as in mirrors
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O the white towns with picket fences,
and the green lawns, in the blue hills -
the courthouse bells are tolling, tolling
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I had thought the tree
was alive with birds
hearing the fury
of so many small wings
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Someone is speaking a lost language.
It is the music of Villa-Lobos.
I try to remember: where was I
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If this small human testament
completes its odyssey
clears the curtains of fiery meteors
crosses the rages of magnetic storms
rides free of hydrogen whirlwinds
falls through coalsack eternities
lands smoothly on the Milky Way
glides along its lightband
to the shores of an unknown planet
in an unknown star-continent
to be found and wonderingly
pondered held in your hands-
this message is meant for you.
Be advised that I lived on
a small green ball in the suburbs
of an unremarkable star
that had begun to run down.
Our race was a sun-people
but died of diseases called wars.
To you out there in star cities
with your libraries, fountains
or you who are still making it
through ice ages of ignorance-
whoever or whatever you are
here is earth's final message:
I love you i love you I love you.
There is nothing more to say
there is nothing better here
and nothing in all the spiraling nebulae
was a frail or as mighty as this.
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5/12/2024 3:05:21 AM # 1.0.0.1119
what remarkable. beautiful poems! please post more of her work.