Claudia emerson biography waldorf

It was first dark when the plow turned it up.
Unsown, it came fleshless, mud-ruddled, nothing
but itself, the tendon's bored eye threading
a ponderous needle.

And yet the pocked fist
...

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I think by now it is time for the second cutting.
I imagine the field, the one above the last

house we rented, has lain in convalescence
long enough. The hawk has taken back the air
...

For three years you lived in your house
just as it was before she died: your wedding
portrait on the mantel, her clothes hanging
in the closet, her hair still in the brush
...

Two boys, not quite men, pretended to let it go only to catch it again and again.

Claudia emerson biography waldorf

And the turtle, equally determined, each time gave its heart to escape them. We were near the base of the old dam where the river became a translucent
...

The forecast had not predicted it,
and its beginning, a calming, rumbled dusk

and pleasant lightning, she welcomed as harbinger
of rain.

Then as night came she he