Mound
Pamela Loft
Orly Dahan : The Wedding Dress
Other people are playing water polo…
so I have become unhurried with
the heat from the ground
thoughts are stewed in the thick
steamy soup of mid afternoon
and I learn to lie
in the cool breath of the fan
and wait
sometimes the grief overtakes me
suddenly
like eggshell cracking
it pours out
to spread around me and
I can almost
comfort myself with its slipping softness
I hear the wailing of women
down in the dry riverbed
and know their loss
lover child mother country
1991-2006
Pamela Lofts
