Hi Cara,
Brilliant. No warning necessary.
CW, Mary :O)
--- cara may <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear All, I wonder if I have somehow got outside the
> loop since there's very little coming in. So I guessed
> the thing to do was to put more out, as a test of
> sorts.
>
> ANOTHER POEM WITH A WARNING: may have a too upsetting
> image for some.Promise a cheerful one next.
> cheers,cara
>
>
>
>
>
> --- Washed-Up
>
> |She walks by the river
> crosses the foot-bridge
> over turbulent falls,
> flounders in cattle prints
> near the stiles.
> Buoyant mallards make light
> of choppy waters
> or tuck themselves up on banks
> to dose in wintry sun.
> A herring-gull, tired of its laziness,
> makes off on sturdy wing.
> Sometimes she uses her binoculars.
> She hears the current's suck and pluck
> at the deep edges under the trees,
> then follows where the river widens,
> mockingly innocent in its calm.
> Four men come towards her on the path
> one wreathed in rope.
> They pass with grave greetings.
> Would it take so much rope? she wonders
> as she had doubted the relevance
> of the gaudy canoes and their yellow-jacketed
> operators.
>
> She turns back,
> feels useless.
> She knows nothing of water rescue.
> Has spent, it seems, a lifetime
> rescuing others from lesser hurts
> on dry land.
>
> As she crosses the last stile
> the ooze of melted creosote
> spreads into her palm;
> but what she sees is blood
> from a tossed head
> merging
> into sullen waters.
>
> cara November 2001
>
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Maryann Hazen-Stearns
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