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©
2014 Barbara Curry Mulcahy
Barbara Curry Mulcahy's book The Man with the Dancing Monkey was shortlisted for the Lowther and Lampert Awards. She lives with her husband in Slocan, BC and writes for The Valley Voice. One of her poems was a Monday Poem earlier this year. The New Orphic Review has recently published her poems and will publish more this fall.
The poem "Three Beginnings" was published in Quarry Magazine (Summer 1984) and then in her book The Man with the Dancing Monkey (Wolsak & Wynn, 1997). |
Three Beginnings
Wait like a silverfish dry and boneless.
Wait with legs and the castanet
back of a beetle. Wait in the woolen cowl
of the sky.
The wind like a mountain; like the arched spine
of a mountain; like the sparrow-bone caves
of a mountain; like a mountain, like a wounded
tiger.
The petiole’s base is broken
like the hoof of a horse at the top
of a hill. The rain on the window is broken
like the hoof of a horse at the top
of a hill: the horse, the horse, the horse
on the hill.
