Songs for the Millenium (Past)

by Deborah Ethier

 A 24-pg chapbook published by Plowman Press in 1990, "Songs for the Millenium (Past)" contains 11 poems, each with is own full-page black-and-white illustration facing the poem.

A sample:

"Roman Earring (Pompeii)"

Run the whited shells:

The Song, Shepherds, Silted stairs,

Looped and hollow hoop of gold.

Strike the scattered bronze:

Sirens, Seers, flesh of clay,

Satyrs clothed in gilded mold,

Looped and hollow hoop of gold.

Rhyme the flinted swords:

Serpents, circlets, sacred suns,

Burnt desires, carved and cold,

Looped and hollow hoop of gold.

Smooth the linen skulls:

The Soil, Secrets, shifting stars,

The dust that clings, the dust of fear,

Fossilled bread, a story told...

Looped and hollow hoop of gold.

A sample page:

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