This poem is taken from PN Review 100, Volume 21 Number 2, November - December 1994.
Five Poems
The Hare
(i.m. Frances Horovitz 1938*1983)
That March night I remember how we heard
a baby crying in a neighbouring room
but found him sleeping quietly in his cot.
The others went to bed and we sat late
talking of children and the men we loved.
You thought you'd like another child. 'Too late'
you said. And we fell silent, thought a while
of yours with his copper hair and mine,
a grown daughter and sons.
Then, that joke we shared, our phases of the moon.
'Sisterly lunacy' I said. You liked
the phrase. It became ours. Different
as earth and air, yet in one trace that week
we towed the calends like boats reining
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