A Sample Poem from Early Tigers

by Linda Armstrong

Bellowing Ark Press, Shoreline, WA 1995

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                     Working Blind

               

              Then I worked apart

              from mops and moonlight

              on a labor of memory,

              out of reach,

              like the traditions of fish

              who live so far below the sea's

              surface they carry lights.

               While my finger followed

               tasks of mundane time,

               inner hands molded

               sacred blood and bone;

               a curve of skull,

               a thumb, an elbow.

               Then the deep door opened

               and all that hidden work

               came crying into the light.

               I looked into eyes from inside

               and when they looked back,

               all outsides melted away.