xxii (and another)
After the flood
I send a dove
from myself
to you
but she is carried off
by a misplaced gale.
So after the flood
I send a raven
from myself
to you
and she returns to me
with bread
with fish
with sweet milk
but I send her back
to the air
and she returns
with a tattered wedding dress
and she returns
with an ivory comb
and she returns
with a lock
of your hair
torn from
the root.
Christopher
Christopher Leibow is a poet, visual artist and a sensei is a lay minister with Bright Dawn Way of Oneness Buddhism and is the sensei and founder of the Salt Lake Buddhist Fellowship which he has led for ten years. He has had his art and poetry published international. He lives in Salt Lake City and spends his time with his two youing boys Teague and Ronen
3 Comments
Ms Jones
After the flood
There is more
flooding
More birds to send
More birds to return
With what they retrieve.
slpmartin
Rather mournful tone to the poem.
Christopher Anthony Leibow
a little and maybe a little more aggressive.