(for Katherine L. Gordon, on the occasion of the 2010 winter solstice)
"The Newgrange dead"
Only someone
as regal and long-hemmed,
—& shadowy, starry and blue,
as You—
(from her bed)
could've seen them,
instructed, at last, in how to love
and go down the one
passage way
to yr King—
the deeper and deeper,
not sadder and sadder
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