To All Appearances A Lady - University of British Columbia
To All Appearances A Lady - University of British Columbia
To All Appearances A Lady - University of British Columbia
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G w l a d y s<br />
Dowries<br />
Lucy's Children<br />
I have a passion for bones<br />
this frame which holds suspended<br />
all our mad trappings, puts out every hour<br />
such subtle flags to celebrate<br />
the fact and feast <strong>of</strong> being.<br />
And so my eye, a raging slave to form,<br />
pierces the palimpsest, finds<br />
through indelible subtexts every ghost<br />
that lies in knee or cheekbone,<br />
shoulders' slouch that marks our human walk<br />
from Lucy's feet to here,<br />
from here to where—black holes?<br />
lemurs were us, but so far back<br />
you cannot blame them for his bulging eyes<br />
her quickened leap from s<strong>of</strong>a to the door.<br />
curious how it crumbles<br />
this brief bag <strong>of</strong> bones, shrinks down,<br />
reveals complexities—lost Blackfoot hunter, Chinese pirate<br />
that Ashanti slave—mirrors with fine exactitude<br />
secrets <strong>of</strong> lineage, truth as our bodies age.
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