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Art by Carolina Brunelli
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Poetry by L.B. Williams
L.B. Williams
When You Were Wild
(after Louise Erdrich)
When you were far away
snow fell green
Where trees were white hoary mountains
When three hundred year old men
could sleep beneath eagles
and become boys again
When I called to you
my voice at first a whisper
When all the mandrake roots were
taken from the earth
When a wind sighing chant
brought you to me.
Originally published in Mom Egg Review Vol. 13
L.B. Williams is the author of Letters to Virginia Woolf, (Hamilton Books, 2005). Her poetry has appeared in such publications as Washington Square, Mom Egg Review, Sunrise from Blue Thunder (A Pirene’s Fountain Anthology). She has also published two poetry chapbooks, Sky Studies, (Finishing Line Press Fall 2014), and The Eighth Phrase (Porkbelly Press, October 2014). A new poetry chapbook, In the Early Morning Calling, is forthcoming this year from Finishing Line Press. She is Professor of Literature at Ramapo College of New
Jersey. www.letterstovirginiawoolf.com.