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The Morning Hour by Dawn Lundy Martin
Winner of the 2003 PSA Chapbook Fellowship
The Morning Hour by Dawn Lundy Martin, selected and introduced by C. D. Wright.
Edition: 500 copies of the winning books were printed by the Prolific Group and designed by Gabriele Wilson.
$8.00
Backward, our peculiar language.
Mama says, your life are your hands.
Count them. Spoken and leans
back into herself a lone blade
amongst a field. Each grass a palm
A straw hat on the old woman
who stands back to lone house
not smiling. A rake in her hands
Two coconut palm trees—
She would draw concentric circles in sand . . .
What yields in darkness?
A point of surrender.
The still music of captivity.
All the civility of work.
All rights reserved. Reprinted with the permission of the author
