I gave birth to the king’s daughter
To the golden egg
To the promise of rain
To the alphabet’s silence
Behind that rain-slicked window
Something fogged the glass
That was me
Pleased to meet you
*
Rain and the flash of sun
A sudden blindness
Stitched into the retina
Whose shadow did I see
Running over the bleached grass
The blush of sunrise sinking
*
Balm for what woe
Was woe betide
Your one body
And the sun behind
The light’s to-do
The rain’s undone
Was the refrain
Refrained
Did you damp
Down the sun
from Poetry Northwest 08.2 Fall & Winter 2013-2014More by Jessica Fisher from the library
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