Thanks, Max. My mom is a twin (though not identical) so that URL was of
particular interest to me.
Re: cohere -- any suggestions?
sharon brogan
http://www.sbpoet.com
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On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> This comes at me like a vibrant classic revival of a grand tradition...
>
> one word bothers me, however - 'cohere'.
>
> Coincidentally, just in on the aussie e-mag Eureka Street is a piece about
> sisters who share dreams as if each other's ghosts...
>
> http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=12284
>
> but they are less haunted than this...
>
> Max
>
> Quoting sharon brogan <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> > How long must I sit on your grave
> > to elicit a visitation? Must I fast?
> > Must I meditate on the vastness
> > of the universe of death? Must
> > I count my own? Must I arrive
> > at midnight to cohere your ashes
> > back to some semblance of you?
> >
> >
> > If I wake, if I sleep, will you come
> > to me, shambling, silent, silhouetted
> > against the summer moon? Will you
> > speak? I closed your eyes with my own
> > hand. I sat at your side and waited.
> >
> >
> > Now I sit on your grave, and wait.
> > I wrap myself against the night,
> > I sit on the cold ground, where you
> > are not. And wait.
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > sharon brogan
> >
> > http://www.sbpoet.com
> > http://www.sbpoet.net
> > http://smallpoems.sbpoet.net
> >
>
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