SAINT JULIAN PRESS
Kara Briggs ~ Poet
A Dream of Language
distant horizon of motherland, no, an ocean
ferocious rising and falling
so much that solid earth still undulates
left behind in silt a rib cage, a hip, a femur,
a jawbone, a skull awaits beneath an avalanche of air
on prairie splayed under unremitting light
was light the one unknown
In the deep blue? I cannot say
I do not know the cadence of
language like an ancient flood
sounding of ocean waves
washing over green grass, a speaker pours
language like liquid over drought dry ground
in the crowded camp the dancer and the tree
a thousand brightly colored ribbons break free
prayers float atop an open sea
in emergent mud bones re-gather a whale breaches
nearby a buffalo backstrokes our relations coming home
come quickly, sister and brother, the ocean is rising
on land dried in the silence of language
now the ancestral tongue is alive in our mouths and our ears
together as of old and as of now
our footsteps fit together, words are our bridge
distant horizon of motherland, no, an ocean
ferocious rising and falling
so much that solid earth still undulates
left behind in silt a rib cage, a hip, a femur,
a jawbone, a skull awaits beneath an avalanche of air
on prairie splayed under unremitting light
was light the one unknown
In the deep blue? I cannot say
I do not know the cadence of
language like an ancient flood
sounding of ocean waves
washing over green grass, a speaker pours
language like liquid over drought dry ground
in the crowded camp the dancer and the tree
a thousand brightly colored ribbons break free
prayers float atop an open sea
in emergent mud bones re-gather a whale breaches
nearby a buffalo backstrokes our relations coming home
come quickly, sister and brother, the ocean is rising
on land dried in the silence of language
now the ancestral tongue is alive in our mouths and our ears
together as of old and as of now
our footsteps fit together, words are our bridge
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Publication Date: September 12, 2024
Paperback: $18.00 Publisher: Saint Julian Press, Inc. Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1-955194-35-8 eBook EPUB ISBN-13: 978-1-955194-36-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2024939387 Paperback: 92 Pages For a PDF Advance Copy, contact Ron Starbuck or Kara Briggs. |
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