Drawn Like Silk
Loreen Heneghan
When they come in long green coats, that are cut like wool dresses furrowed with glass-gazing buttons — but we know it is a coat, for it covers smooth layers of silk beneath When they come with eyes painted blue, and skin clear as milk-cream even though their eyes are not eyes — and their skin is not so different from the pale cloth they wear beneath When they come we must follow them, because they will call us out with names we'll know for our own — but, oh, how thin the voices, that sound like the shift of soft threads beneath When they come from that other place, where we remember old truth we have each lost before our birth — like light that makes no shadow, or the spindle hands that draw silk beneath green coats.
Loreen Heneghan's favourite fruit is the nectarine.
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