Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003

“She Sang”

signing our names on the train’s engine car gray 19th century Irish men in our gray stiff clothes “She Sang” Save the goat of humanity! She started out shot through with love books She chose closed hearts those she knew would not kill her Save her memory her bones dig under the house dig near home here at the X in the mouth of the house the shell shocked woman all her bones goat bones A Bone Standing Up A bone standing up she worked for words word by word up Mt. Fear till she got to her name: it was “She Sang.” 6 door in the mountain ...