A carpet raveling on the loom a girl with a widowspeak and misty legs a moon like a fisheye rising from a pool a black longwinging loon bursting afire in the sunset a torn sail groveling in a wave a whisper in a stairwell a helmet upturned in the black rain and later a star reflected like a coin glimmering on seastones a sound of motors and machineguns in the dawn a kiss and candleflame a sonata for clarinet a bone cracking a woman wearing a blue veil and in kashan in a room where the little darkeyed weaving girls lay down and died a carpet raveling on a loom. Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A CARELESS HEART by ISAAC ROSENBERG IN DISPRAISE OF THE MOON by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE SIGNS OF THE TIMES by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR ODE ON INDOLENCE by JOHN KEATS THE SECRET OF THE SEA by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE PAST IS THE PRESENT by MARIANNE MOORE |