Santa Fe Poetry Broadside: Lyn Lifshin: Georgia O'Keeffe's Black Hills with Cedar

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Lyn Lifshin

Georgia O'Keeffe's Black Hills with Cedar

rose lichen
     gamble oak
           globe mallow

   bent in rain

      blue lupine

               juniper mistletoe

   onyx hills rose shadows

    these rocks
                     pulled from each other

       two million years ago

wrenched like a woman
    whose child is grabbed

                on a cattle car

                       smashed into stone

    her eyes, streaked
            like sky over the black hills

                       a Monday, all sipapu,

                               a spirit entrance

                                      into the underworld

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Issue #20, May, 2001 :
Santa Fe Poetry Broadside.