THE SKELETON HOLDING UP THE SKY

To My Unknown Ancestor

She walks through fields that have no bones or trees.
The grass is green, but rocky coasts surround
her—all she wants is ice and Irish. Words
before her time, fire in the hills, and
no fish. She hears the wars under water,
the lullabies that turn to banshee screams,
a chaser, a shipwreck, the shells and winds
that turn to land. The snakes of yesteryear.
Language has changed her dreams; fountains reject
rain. It used to be colder, snow and hail.
These days, no brighter colors exist than
here—poets sing of famine browns, gray storms,
the misty white of stones in the dry sun.
She is hoping to exist in the future,
she is embroidering her words on leaves,
she is dreaming beyond the sea, over
another storm, to me, my language, all
the heated winters that I will come to know.

  —Mary Christine Delea
      The Skeleton Holding Up the Sky (Main Street Rag Publishing, 2006)     

Announcing the publication of THE SKELETON HOLDING UP THE SKY (ISBN: 1-59948-020-4)
Main Street Rag Publishing Company

You can buy Mary Christine Delea’s first full-length book of poetry two ways! Visit the publisher and order online: www.mainstreetrag.com/store/NewReleases.php

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