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Margo Berdeshevsky: Listen….Listen

Or firefly, night-lighter,
what eye can see your ladybird
love’s wingbeat

October 21, 2024 · 12 Comments

Margo Berdeshevsky: After the Auguries…

Where are medicines for vengeances, where
are cures in what palm of whose open hand.

September 1, 2024 · 9 Comments

Margo Berdeshevsky: God Bless the Child That’s Got His Own

He says — you will let go he will let go the branch when he is
Ready I nod, yes, he says, climbing the hill from the sea
Where he has gone to wash distance and salt before it comes

June 30, 2024 · 3 Comments

Margo Berdeshevsky: Beyond My Used-up Words

If I say
what I know of plenty and of empty,
how will I sleep, or dream of herons?

May 30, 2024 · 9 Comments

Margo Berdeshevsky: Here Is My Body

Invisible, on our lake, our dreamscape, the old blue heron lands.

February 17, 2024 · 6 Comments

Margo Berdeshevsky: For Autumn, 2023

yet awake to the fallen
leaves—their many many
tiny burning
hands—

November 17, 2023 · 4 Comments

Margo Berdeshevsky: After Fado, At the Elgins

I’m weary of
celibacy he says, eyes on the Elgin Centaurs,
battling warrior-boys forever-father

March 21, 2022 · 1 Comment

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