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TWO POEMS
by Lola Haskins
THE SAND-HILL CRANES
The blue air fills with cries.
The cranes are streams, rivers.
They danced on the night prairie,
leapt at each other, quivering.
The long bones of sand-hill cranes
know their next pond. Not us.
When something is too beautiful,
we do not understand to leave.
THREE GRAINS
Barley
Sturdy children, setting off for school
along the golden street.
Wheat
The thin, crested heads of birds.
What if, startled, they all suddenly flew?
Rye
She is too delicate for wind.
See how she pulls her green scarf over her head.
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LOLA
HASKINS has published seven books of poetry, most recently The Rim
Benders (Anhinga, 2001). BOA will publish Desire Lines: New and Selected
Poems in 2004. Her work has been broadcast on NPR and on BBC, and
has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Southern Review, Georgia Review, New
England Review, Prairie Schooner, London Review of Books, London
Magazine and elsewhere. |
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