(An elderly woman receives a medical award for her father who was killed by a Germantown mob in 1917.)
I vision myself
rescuing my heart chakra
Candlemas with no quickening;
The Lady of the Lake
lies under the bell jar.
The child took apart
the antique clock
A depressed woman’s psyche
“Last night, in a dream Marilyn Monroe
appeared to me as a fairy godmother.
Few men’s faces I can think of.
The part is nothing –
a fragment, figment, a virus.
Texas War for Independence:
Great-great Grandpa Speer