Laura SIMS
Correction: Sarcophagus, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (1978)
What is
Otherwise atrium light,
Greco-Romans
Horribly
Soft and alive
Correction: Sarcophagus, Part II (1979)
Is this what life
And then I existed
The universe
Yoked
To the stairs
At the back of my head
Correction: Euphoric (June, 1992)
Behind her eyes:
The stranger
His white corsage
In the corner
Relieved
By his teeth in the sun,
His mellifluous chatter
Something
Like respite
Confetti descends
But dampened leaves, danger—
A red and blue cloud—
Nothing
To stay these goings down of the sun
Correction: Thanksgiving (1992)
I love the barn-like restaurant
The lowness
Of pilgrimage managed
We scraped
And numbed, blind
Long after the fact
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The grim satisfaction
Correction: The floating signs along the road (2006)
Home
Say
Mother are you Mother are you Mother are you
Mother are you Mother are you Mother are you
Driving it