Apr '18
6
The rescued poem for today is from pages 6 and 54 of The Devourers and Marie Tarnowska respectively, both by Annie Vivanti Chartres.
What is interesting is that in the final four stanzas, words are mixed up somewhat, as if the speaker hasn't quite remembered the way language is usually ordered.
When the dead listen
Sometimes I call to my dear mamma, dead;
as cool as my ancestors, shrivelled and old.
Crying her name, I thought, would have helped
but she is unmoved in the depths of the snow...
...stay your tears this time
say you wish me well
they came to see me lowered
I died for want of warm
what your well of tears
don’t say: wish me time
lowered into warm I want
I died in what I came for
who were you my last
my strange my solemn fair
I finished and I asked
in winter marble lain
my fair, you were my last
my want my dear my strange
the solemn marble asked
in winter I was lain
What is interesting is that in the final four stanzas, words are mixed up somewhat, as if the speaker hasn't quite remembered the way language is usually ordered.
When the dead listen
Sometimes I call to my dear mamma, dead;
as cool as my ancestors, shrivelled and old.
Crying her name, I thought, would have helped
but she is unmoved in the depths of the snow...
...stay your tears this time
say you wish me well
they came to see me lowered
I died for want of warm
what your well of tears
don’t say: wish me time
lowered into warm I want
I died in what I came for
who were you my last
my strange my solemn fair
I finished and I asked
in winter marble lain
my fair, you were my last
my want my dear my strange
the solemn marble asked
in winter I was lain
05/01/2018 01:27:06 AM
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