Fragment (6): Katherine

(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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