That Kind Of Voice
Posted on June 4th, 2008 by Shewolf
I.
a mother, holding her feverish new baby
and whispering:
“Heal!”
that kind of voice
II.
a wife, feeling life leave the hand
of her longest lover,
“Wait for me!”
that kind of voice
III.
a Medicine woman,
saying broken hearts
are why oceans rise
fluids in my body respond
that kind of voice
IV.
a child, weeping in shade of tree,
at answers in sacred hum of bark
bent towards him
like mother he has lost
that kind of voice
V.
They speak with ancients
in sounds as soft
as breaking of a butterfly’s wing
that kind of voice
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