POEM

Undone Song at Neap Tide

by Kathryn Starbuck

Kathryn Starbuck
When the sun and moon were in quadrature, when   
the garden had become a wilderness and the clock refused to strike

When the old year died and the sand walked into
the sea with the neap tide

When you had been too long away and your old snowblue footprints
clotted and hesitated in the clay

When the worry of this undone song unsung so long
so loud my head I went inside and under to let the flood run free

This poem originally appeared in the February 2005 issue of Poetry.

February 2005 issue of Poetry Magazine

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 Kathryn  Starbuck

Journalist, essayist, and editor (of the Milford, New Hampshire, weekly newspaper . . . MORE »

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