This poem is taken from PN Review 219, Volume 41 Number 1, September - October 2014.
‘Dark Rabbit’ and Other Poems
Betsy Rosenberg
‘Dark Rabbit’ and Other Poems
Dark Rabbit
Dark rabbit of the arbors
and warrens of grammar,
I tell you in a language soft as grapes,
duly humbled by your tremor of a smile
I will spring after you now
into a world that knows me
when I speak.
Meroë
Hey you,
pitifully aloof among
the geese of the gaggle,
the sporty mallards,
the pheasants,
and the varicolored hens
you would impregnate if
...
‘Dark Rabbit’ and Other Poems
Dark Rabbit
Dark rabbit of the arbors
and warrens of grammar,
I tell you in a language soft as grapes,
duly humbled by your tremor of a smile
I will spring after you now
into a world that knows me
when I speak.
Meroë
Hey you,
pitifully aloof among
the geese of the gaggle,
the sporty mallards,
the pheasants,
and the varicolored hens
you would impregnate if
...
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