Category: Pattiann Rogers

Mothers,fathers,our kind,tell me again that death doesn’t matter.Tell me it’s just a limitation of vision ,a fold of landscape,a deep flax-and-poppy-filled gully hidden on the hill, pleat in our perception a somersault of existence,natural,even beneficent even a gift,the only key to the red-lacquered door at the end of the hall,”water within water,” those old stories.

Mothers,fathers,our kind,tell me again that death doesn’t matter.Tell me it’s just a limitation of vision ,a fold of landscape,a deep flax-and-poppy-filled gully hidden on the hill, pleat in our perception a somersault of existence,natural,even beneficent even a gift,the only key to the red-lacquered door at the end of the hall,”water within water,” those old stories.