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grandmother poem

the little pitiful, worn, laughing faces
still thirteen years
the ancient songs
backward, turn backward
gone are the three, those sisters rare
i said
i stood by the open casement
up from the south at break of day
the lightning flashed, and lifted
give me
i heard the wind all day

 



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