Showing posts with label orphan girl at the cemetery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label orphan girl at the cemetery. Show all posts

Monday, April 21, 2008

The Fugue



Last night,
her believing
in his breath
across the barrens
of white tendon,
black marrow

But it was only the
wild, wild winds.

And this morning
dawning so still,
so sore,
like piano keys
after a
Rachmaninoff storm


[Orphan Girl at the Cemetery, by Eugene Delacroix]