Doris Stacy & Hilda Morley

Doris Stacy [pic by Alan Bernheimer]

from Doris Stacy’s Fledge: A Phenomenology of Spirit, 2012:

So we bring them to cage

honeysuckle let slide

know itself more than we

know so we pulse at once

in and out while the dips

coax your mouth sealed and mine

chimes

prehensile, whole

curlicue-paved, sails on.

Hilda Morley [pic courtesy of wood s lot]

from Hilda Morley’s Cloudless at First, 1989:

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The catalogue said —

sea-scene

with surf rocks seabirds & in the background

a line of grey horizon

to the right: a scroll twelve inches by eighteen

inches, should I send for it?

Or are

the words enough?

The Chinese cranes arrive,

perch solemnly on the shore explore the seascape

and set the sea-air blowing here forever.