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Blood Memory.(Poem)

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| January 01, 2008 | Blakeney, Ruth | COPYRIGHT 2008 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright
 
BLOOD MEMORY 
 
   On the afternoon I am to meet God, 
   I cannot raise my eyes. Mediocrity 
   wills everything to plastic in the room, 
   even the music on plastic earphones coos 
   insipid sentiment. 
 
   A vase of fuchsias burns, 
   drips-- 
   crystals fall in rivulets 
   down, down the blood-blue blossoms. 
   I know it is forbidden me 
   to look more than a moment at 
   this central mystery. 
 
   I stare round edges of the room, 
   periphery of glory, rage 
   at the pity of it: I am denied 
   this beauty, have always been 
   will always be 
   average plastic mean 
 
   God seizes my eyes 
   to show the face that was 
   before the men were made: 
   cold old black eyes pitiless leather face 
   before the light was light 
   sealed up for eons in a ...
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