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M A R Y   G R E E N E                     from  H i G H   W A T E R M A R K   S A L O [O] N  volume 1 number 2

Return

The night takes these inky thoughts, blurs them to rainy shadows hopes scattered, spots of fat snow on the wind. 

     I held your hand in Springfield--it was
     not your real hand, but your long fingers swept my face clean.
     It was not my real voice that spoke to you
     But it was my mouth that kissed you. 
Now the heart returns to its spot,
its pact with choices piled up like sticks.
Ceremonies are finished.
The spells of longing and protection
finished.
The night takes them into drifts
of sour sleep,
into the secret wooded hills. 
     We return to sing the darker music.
     The bones stretching
     into trees stripped of bark, ready
     for the fire.

 

 

 
  B I O
Mary Greene, a resident of Narrowsburg, NY, received her MFA in Poetry from Brooklyn College. She is founder and director of the Upper Delaware Writers Collective, which sponsors classes, publications and events. She is also associate editor of The River Reporter newspaper in Narrowsburg. Greene's poetry has appeared in a number of national and local journals, and she has given readings and performances in venues all over the region. Her chapbook, Where You're Going in this Dream , was published in 1991, and her book, A Painting with You Running through It, was published in 2005.