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Barbara Rockman

                 

Ghazal

The puppy paused, then leapt at the dark lilac,
announced this prey, this late movement.

In the museum of my childhood I switched on light.
The dull crystal, tubes of opaque liquid, rocks, went luminous

like the purple heart my father earned. I thought
a carved stone stayed embedded in his chest.

Whatever I see--ring of laced silver hearts my teen-ager wears;
her pencil sketch, a convoluted web of hearts, indeciperable

as all languages I've attempted and failed. At midnight,
the scent is so loud I don't sleep. The fat lilac seized.





Copyright © 1999 Barbara Rockman.

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