加拿大 玛格丽特·阿特伍德 Margaret Atwood  加拿大   (1939~?)
A Sad Child
A Visit
Backdropp Addresses Cowboy
Bored
Flying Inside Your Own Body
Habitation
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing
In the Secular Night
Is/Not
More and More
Morning in the Burned House
Night Poem
Postcards
Provisions
Sekhmet, the Lion-headed Goddess of War
Siren Song
Spelling
The City Planners
The Landlady
The Moment
The Rest
The Shadow Voice
This is a Photograph of Me
Variation On The Word Sleep
Multiple poems at a time
outland poetry

The Shadow Voice

   Margaret Atwood

My shadow said to me:
what is the matter


Isn't the moon warm
enough for you
why do you need
the blanket of another body


Whose kiss is moss


Around the picnic tables
The bright pink hands held sandwiches
crumbled by distance. Flies crawl
over the sweet instant


You know what is in these blankets


The trees outside are bending with
children shooting guns. Leave
them alone. They are playing
games of their own.


I give water, I give clean crusts


Aren't there enough words
flowing in your veins
to keep you going.   

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