Susan Gardner Poems

CÉZANNE'S APPLES

Eye-shape bowl
ringed dark around the iris
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LOCKED GATE


On December 19,1980
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On the funerary cover, drapery
shining black and beautiful,
centuries of parishioners have yielded to its tactile seduction
and left a polished ghost of their passing caresses.
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Rough-cut stones ragged in roofless granite walls,
piled up, heaped on what was once the floor

Where windows were,
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Hard edged cold slides in
ribs rigid, pleural sacs hold iced shards of air
lungs freeze from inside out
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