This poem is taken from PN Review 243, Volume 45 Number 1, September - October 2018.
Two Poems
Mihi
for Margaret Hickey, 1927–2018
The birds and animals of our mother’s land greet
the birds and animals of your land.
Her waterways, tributaries
and flooded plains
greet yours. Now she is gone, she joins
the dead of her tribe
in greeting
your dead. And her dead
birds and animals offer this, their heartfelt
address, to your dead birds, animals.
And to the living. Her constellations greet your
constellations and if these happen to be
the same constellations
they wrap their arms around
themselves.
Her fruit trees, in season, greet
...
for Margaret Hickey, 1927–2018
The birds and animals of our mother’s land greet
the birds and animals of your land.
Her waterways, tributaries
and flooded plains
greet yours. Now she is gone, she joins
the dead of her tribe
in greeting
your dead. And her dead
birds and animals offer this, their heartfelt
address, to your dead birds, animals.
And to the living. Her constellations greet your
constellations and if these happen to be
the same constellations
they wrap their arms around
themselves.
Her fruit trees, in season, greet
...
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