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“As for sorrow” and “Poet” by Liane Tyrrel

June 23, 2025 MPJ
As for sorrow Having been struck early and having not ended A swallow narrowed a barn door. Some shot in the distance
The instinctive heat of the body The horns of laughter they rang at irregular intervals. The laughter.
Poet I won't clear the sound of voices curtain crossing the hall. Or hide my near heart racing, The circlets of childhood, I want chant and gesture. The lamb so bent to ground, to eat in plain light. I am not weak 'I move close but keep from closing. Take its heat 'Often in waves dizzied at borrowed time
This the way it came a whole shape The material of the world bound to movement and little birds like water, I find words, for look in green field. I live there I am possessed I am not sorry My children have grown I am my mother I am lusher At night this town. So strangely lit to get there The sky, call its
self low circling and likely as any thing So spare the fields dreamed remnants What is left? I stand there in that door, with small sound billowing by the handful through this lefthanded mind, my mother and I all wings of birds it feels magnetic I say that resistance the current remembered my whole hand in

​​Liane Tyrrel is a poet and painter. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Image Journal, and Four Way Review among others.

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