Grave Poem of Spoon Island: Merideth Hurley
(1990)
Inspired by the book "Spoon River Anthology" by Edgar Lee Masters. These poems have been crafted by me under the title "Grave Poems of Spoon Island".
There is an even-handed justice in… No senility forgiven, but caught a… Blood and flesh, bone and marrow To feed the life of another, And back to the earth that gave it…
inhumanity kills boys civilization kills girls
I’ve known rivers swift currents set free escaping to the brine of the ocean and on to exotic places I’ll never be
I remember the summer of the polio scare we couldn’t go to the cove to swim that whole summer
looking at the world through drops of counterfeit lace on the window pane
the universe opens accepting my homecoming sky races by
the silence of colour palette of fall reflected on water white birch trees granite rocks
Time for a pit stop Half face in rear view mirror Road unwound behind
white-rimmed waves crawl reluctantly shore ward moody city skyline rebuffs shafts of sunshine cloud confusion
once the larvae have hatched how long can they survive without… each day I go forceps in hand to count the dead
In the universe Of winking stars is there one Who also wonders?
All I wanted to do was ride my mo… And make out at Spooner’s Point. But when Mary Daley got pregnant Her father threatened me with the… So I married her and went to work
the sum of the estate: pictures newspaper clippings poems the memories
we don’t know who he said he was we came from curiosity and stayed for the inhumanity
WINTER SHADOW / Feb 11, 2011 small white stones fall rattling to the ground a shadow keeps pace beside me through the groaning night