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Prairie Schooner

Ann Fisher-Wirth

The Mothers

Therefore do not work,
for the night
cometh wherein
the voices of the Mothers
will pulse in blackberries
that ripen on the cliff
and whir around you
like dragonflies, stitch
the licks of cloud
with their bone needles.

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