[New-Poetry] Carruth: Burial Rites

[David Graham]

Burial Rites

Did anyone ever believe that the dead woman
they buried with a bone needle in her hand
would use it to sew a new jerkin in the country
beyond the moon? Or that the young man whose
mutilated corpse they placed on a shield would
use it to defend himself? No, our ancestors
were not so simple. They did these things
without expectation. They did them in despair.

--Hayden Carruth. Doctor Jazz.  Copper Canyon Press, 2003.




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