Only to be Covered Again, Poems and Photographs, II

5x8inches, 100pages, ISBN 0-9762615-4-5, hardcover, $18.00

A second selection of poems and photographs from one who gives completely
from the soul. This piece is as sad as it is intriguing, humble, and sweet.


To My Father

To be what you’ve always wanted
I would have to levitate the needs inside my bones
So that earth consumed air far below me and sky mixed
Violently with my muted voice there above me—
“Father, I know you love me.”

Requesting that I do what government and society bear as
Admirable is not me, for I alone am a woman of
Forest and grass.
I laugh and write and read and wake, but
All in my mind’s quiet and secrecy—
Because your plan for me hinders my outward glow.