Lake Song by Collette Inez
Lake Song
Collette InezEvery day our name is changed,
say stones colliding into waves.
Go read our names on the shore,
say waves colliding into stones.Birds over water call their names
to each other again and again
to say where they are.
Where have you been, my small bird?I know our names will change one day
to stones in a field
of anemones and lavender.Before you read the farthest wave,
before our shadows disappear
in a starry blur, call out your name
to say where we are.
ABOUT COLLETTE INEZ
Colette Inez was the author of ten books of poetry. Her earliest collection, The Woman Who Loved Worms (1972), won the Great Lakes Colleges Association National First Book Award and was reissued by Carnegie Mellon’s Classic Contemporary series in 1991. Other titles include Family Life (1988); Getting Under Way: New & Selected Poetry (1993); Clemency (1998); and Spinoza Doesn’t Come Here Anymore (2004). Recent collections include Horseplay (2011) and The… (more)
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