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The Legal Studies Forum
Volume 30, Number 1/2 (2006) reprinted by permission Legal Studies Forum Lawyers & Poets Scenes | | Dreams HELEN BAILEY _________________ Silent Masquerade It's a thin disguise, this silence, comforting against remembrance. Dreams that would intrude are not the stuff of light and fade among the details of the day. Bound and packaged photos safely tucked away for another time, and there will be that time surely, when I will study the faces, the smiles, that dress, the ill fitting trousers, yes, I'll remember all, an afternoon, the voices and the stories they told. [725]
Here and Elsewhere Elsewhere, the coffee is strong, the food flavored with spices I could not name, scents I could not remember but by some trigger, later, elsewhere, wrestled the feeling to recollection, walking on century smoothed stones in a village of a name I could not pronounce, words spoken I did not understand, a stranger then, still. [726]
Into the Half Life It is only morning already the day is leaking. Specters of night's dreaming, lurk in corner eye and dissolve with turning, floaters on the day's vision begging to remembrance their stories half-told. [727]
A Theory of Time I felt the scent of him and sighed into its comfort though years had passed since we were together but by some glitch in the order of things was cast back to a moment one of countless millions each an eternal fraction of a life. [728]
Out of Time A gray day such as this lives in other tenses no dimension of its own ensnared in expectation and filmy recollection. wind and white a leaf vermilion [729]
The Kite A child's fingers, knotted by a rage that barely stems sobs pressed against lashes, gropes the string hopelessly entangled in that moment of steep descent joy to this as he stands mindless by purpose to the carrion bird of broken reeds and gossamer. [730]
Helen Bailey lives in West Gardiner, Maine and practices disability rights law in Augusta. Bailey obtained a B.A. in philosophy from Fordham University in 1970 and her law degree from the University of Maine School of Law in 1978. |
