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Poem in Which Sand Figures Prominently Again

Mary Crow

A POEM IN WHICH SAND
FIGURES PROMINENTLY AGAIN

I rub my eyes because the backyard
is filled with sand-colored light,
edges blurred. You aren’t here so
I can practice the words, I don’t
care. I don’t care. I don’t care.

Love me, said Love, and each
bare tree spilled its bucket of
shadow, leaves squabbling.
I tried to find you everywhere, in
scratchy snapshots, in music.

This dim haze now sifts sandbanks—
how good you’ve become at not
being here, your body a desert—
sand polishes you in the blaze,
but sand doesn’t burn, does it?

 

Header Photo by Andrea Boehner

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About Mary Crow

Mary Crow spent January 2011 in Egypt at a residency in El Gouna; her experiences flying into the revolution of that year figure in a new poetry manuscript, Jostle. Her most recent book of poems is Addicted to the Horizon. Her most recent book of translations is Roberto Juarroz's Vertical Poetry: Last Poems, a finalist for a Poetry Translation Award from PEN USA.

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