Geraldine Connolly Silver Poems
- 1. Lydia
There was life before us
my sister and I discovered
looking at photographs
... - 2. Blue Bridge
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... - 3. New Territory
Sent off to boarding school
at twelve, with a pair of oxfords,
a pair of patents, my sterling
silver christening rosary
... - 4. The Summer I Was Sixteen
The turquoise pool rose up to meet us,
its slide a silver afterthought down which
we plunged, screaming, into a mirage of bubbles.
We did not exist beyond the gaze of a boy.
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