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Sun-Up and Other Poems?By Lola Ridge
DEDICATION?(To my Mother)
Let me cradle myself back?Into the darkness?Of the half shapes...?Of the cauled beginnings...?Let me stir the attar of unused air,?Elusive... ironically fragrant?As a dead queen's kerchief...?Let me blow the dust from off you...?Resurrect your breath?Lying limp as a fan?In a dead queen's hand.
Thanks is due to THE NEW REPUBLIC, POETRY, A MAGAZINE OF VERSE, PLAY-BOY, and OTHERS for permission to reprint some of these poems.
CONTENTS
I?SUN UP
SUN-UP
II?MONOLOGUES
JAGUAR?WILD DUCK?THE DREAM?ALTITUDE?COMRADES?NOCTURNE?CACTUS SEED
III?WINDOWS
TIME-STONE?TRAIN WINDOW?SCANDAL?ELECTRICITY?SKYSCRAPERS?WALL STREET AT NIGHT?EAST RIVER
IV?SECRETS
INTERIM?AFTER STORM?SECRETS?POTPOURRI?THAW
V?PORTRAITS
MOTHER?E.S.?H.?O.F.T.?E.A.R.
VI?SONS OF BELIAL
SONS OF BELIAL
VII?REVEILLE
IN HARNESS?REVEILLE?TO ALEXANDER BERKMAN?EMMA GOLDMAN?AN OLD WORKMAN?TO LARKIN?WIND RISING IN THE ALLEYS
SUN-UP
(Shadows over a cradle...?fire-light craning....?A hand?throws something in the fire?and a smaller hand?runs into the flame and out again,?singed and empty....?Shadows?settling over a cradle...?two hands?and a fire.)
I
CELIA
Cherry, cherry,?glowing on the hearth,?bright red cherry....?When you try to pick up cherry?Celia's shriek?sticks in you like a pin.
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When God throws hailstones?you cuddle in Celia's shawl?and press your feet on her belly?high up like a stool.?When Celia makes umbrella of her hand.?Rain falls through?big pink spokes of her fingers.?When wind blows Celia's gown up off her legs?she runs under pillars of the bank--?great round pillars