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Elisabeth Farrell: IMAGE, FATHER

June 7, 2020 by PBQ 2 Comments

I created you in dreams

I created you from nothing

but dreams and your blood

 

coursing through me was silent

and my mother offered me fragments

of her memory of you

 

I created you

 

in the name of the father

and the son and the holy spirit

I created you in the name of my own flesh

 

a thousand times I created you

from clowns and charlatans and kings

I created you as a set of wings

 

to lift and carry me home

Filed Under: Issue 100, Poetry, Poetry 100 Tagged With: Elisabeth Farrell

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  1. Alice Lee Timmins says

    August 26, 2020 at 8:58 am

    Just yes!

    Reply
  2. Brian Evans-Jones says

    February 17, 2021 at 10:49 am

    Lovely poem Elizabeth. Thank you!

    Reply

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