find ways
"find ways to open up roads
of silence
paved with wax and moons of pearl
for wait a noose ready
the black solitude, when it comes.
find ways to continue to play even in the evidence
enthralling, impalpable,
noisy and terrible war.
find ways to make gold the simple moments,
flatter the time because we expect,
cry in the dark when we become
one person.
find ways to interpret them in the eye constellations
to recognize odors of other lives
and thoughts we have already done
under perpetual snow or moons of stone.
find a way to collect flowers and shells in
- and make jewelry for women betrayed,
and make jewelry for children and sirens -
all times when I save the life.
And there will be a tunnel
in my heart where it can hide a single ghost.
And there will be no hand-tetra
cold
to encourage them to go to die alone.
because they find ways to inhabit lands
poised to release the hostage
dreams and to redeem those who said
that you could not. "
Sonia Serravalli
July 16 2003
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