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Library of Congress
Catalog Number 94-65383
Fourth Edition now in print. Poem below with brief sound sample from
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Copyright, 1997, Third Edition, published by Poetry Alive! Publications,
Asheville, NC. 96 pages. $9.95, shipping & handling. NOTE:
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1-883731-08-9
Illustrations by Michael Shores and Angela
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The Bone-Orchard Conga
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Reviews and Comments... "Ray McNiece is an adept reader of his own
moving, clearly inmaged poems, a skilled performer who does the English
language justice. "
- - X.J. Kennedy, Lamont Poetry Prize Winning Poet.
"McNiece smoothly blends fine writing with an
angry political conscience. His folksy but honed poems are drawn from
the heart of the working class."
-- Amy Sparks, Free Times
"A warm, wise, gracious guide through an infirm
world he teaches his leader how to love."
-- David Evett, Cleveland State University Poetry Center
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The Inevitable Movement of Love - text below
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The Inevitable Movement of Love
by ray
mcniece, copyright 1997
Mothers warned their daughters of sailors
but who warned the sailors of you
and all your candles. As you touch your fire
to the last wicks that forest and cathedral the dark
you tell me what the Swedish wives' tale tells - -
"everytime you light a candle, you kill a sailor."
Many sailors have died in this bedroom
where you lead me to dance unsteady
on my sea-legs of champagne, giddy
with your praise of how I always move
towards what I love as I move now
towards your flushed and flickering body.
Our coming together is the inevitable movement of love,
two lives fastening before groaningly letting go,
invoking god to come, come and show us your face,
our eyes rolling back into our skulls,
obliterating mathematics with the equation
one plus one equals one, intimate wisdom
that widens out into the phosphorescence of stars
where we sink and sleep like luminous fish.
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