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\"laundry<\/p>\n

<\/a>My mother as the Lovell Telescope<\/strong><\/p>\n

I find her tilted, head up
\nand listening, ear shaped for the universe.<\/p>\n

On warm days I climb the frame of her skirts
\njust to lie again in her deep cupped womb,<\/p>\n

skin soothed by the dah-dah-dits of the sun.
\nOn the face of it she\u2019s a blank sheet<\/p>\n

in wait of sound sifting through a black noise
\nfor white notes, a syllabics of stars.<\/p>\n

I feel the murmur in her every move,
\nlearn her workings, her subtle pitch and sway.<\/p>\n

Listen to the sky waves<\/em>, she says, listen,
\nto the pain of everything speaking at once.<\/em>
\n 
\n<\/p>\n

Not Speaking of You<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tragedies come in the hungry hours<\/em>
\n     The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf, 1915<\/p>\n

I spend the summer in the cradle of a boat
\nthe sky and sea the kind of black that Manet understood
\nthe reds and blues the yellows obscured by crayon<\/p>\n

in this little skiff I have no compass and all the stars
\nare closed for any business with the living
\nink spills across the words I could have written for you<\/p>\n

the months drag their nets behind them
\na brimming catch that can\u2019t be landed
\nI cast my fingers into water to grab at language<\/p>\n

though the thought alone of speech is blinding
\non the turn of this night is another where my sail fills with air
\nthe moon writes its signature on blue-white waves and there Godrevey<\/p>\n

her intermittent call breaks silence not repulsing
\nbut reaching out across the black to speak of you to me<\/p>\n

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