count seven gardens in your yard
hard-boil solid in your black boots
grown straight from dirt
flower-peppered dresses
for everyday of your week
for shade, babushkas
the colours of pysankas
cheeks varnished round
smooth as egg shells
laughter
the clucking of hens
~ Patricia Sinclair
Patti Sinclair is published with Palabras Press, Synchronicity, The Prairie Journal, ditch, and ascent magazine, and is the forthcoming featured writer in […]
Filed under: Patti Sinclair by akublik Date 24 January, 2008
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red barn
with wide hips
deep in the bales
have heydays of dreams
we marry brothers
so our families can stay forever
twined
where kittens of wild cats
hang stubborn to dried cords,
you cut them off-
these places that save us
and the horses-
learn to ride western, bareback
it was this, or religion
places of hiding places
this quarter-section
you wish never to leave
and return to city-house
where one has […]
Filed under: Patti Sinclair by akublik Date 21 January, 2008
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