Geraldine Connolly Black Poems

  • 1.
    Gnarled and blessed
    be the hour of autumn
    when spotted pears sink
    into wet sod, and blessed be
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  • 2.
    There was life before us

    my sister and I discovered
    looking at photographs
    ...
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  • 4.
    Sent off to boarding school
    at twelve, with a pair of oxfords,
    a pair of patents, my sterling
    silver christening rosary
    ...
  • 5.
    Out of their secret places
    in autumn, from under

    dark logs and smooth gravestones
    ...
Total 5 Black Poems by Geraldine Connolly

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