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Sarabande

Sarabande

By Norma Cole b. 1945 Norma Cole

“and then looks at

the stars” from the

bed in the ambulance

looks up at boughs of

trees shifting quickly

lit in blackness

blackening soft, deep

siren’s song—she died

several times that night

and only in the weeks

to come started and

started to come back

then forward which is

real life

Norma Cole, "Sarabande" from Where Shadows Will, City Lights Spotlight No. 1. Copyright © 2009 by Norma Cole. Reprinted by permission of City Lights Books.

Source: Where Shadows Will (City Lights Books, 2009)

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Poet Norma Cole b. 1945

POET’S REGION U.S., Western

Subjects Living, The Body, Nature, Stars, Planets, Heavens, Arts & Sciences, Theater & Dance, Language & Linguistics

Poetic Terms Free Verse