A few stars glimmered through the morn, And down the thorn the dews were streaming. –from The Dead Kings I’d give anything to see the greens again, Where calves nudge their mother’s teats And sleepy swans rest on marsh ledges. If only star glimmers could warp today to The place before our husbands left to…
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WPP #1 — Said Mrs. Thomas McDonagh
Said Mrs. Thomas McDonagh Ears awake or drowned with sleep hear wailing Realize the voice I hear’s my own grevious flame Bound with a rough rope of sorrow in the dark Round the clock dying, anchored in the dark You’re beneath soil so far away, silently wailing Lost to smiles and hugs and home hearth’s…
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