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The Legal Studies Forum
Volume 30, Number 1/2 (2006) reprinted by permission Legal Studies Forum Lawyers & Poets A World Inhabited LILLIAN BAKER KENNEDY _______________________ Like a Season In spring, the land is littered, as if winter had been, perhaps, only the wash of a large wave, now receded, now leaving only our autumnal remains. A walk past the brackish waters at the edges of the river, itself, a passion of movement. A gull shriek, high, the peace punctured, and I begin to wonder— is even inland a harbor under a great swell of ocean, and is love, like a season, only as long as a wave? [607]
Morning Glory in Maine Along the rocky coast, each ledge belongs to those who come. Sweet slim tendrils linger on the granite, now gray as one who ages in the long life of loving delicate throated blushes. A passing visitor stumbles, and finds, breath drawn, shells left after supper entwined amidst her tresses. Let me be a patient traveler through summer hushed under fog. I might find a wilder comfort though my lips are traced with salt. [608]
Lillian Baker Kennedy is the author of two collections of poetry, Tomorrow After Night (Bay River Press, 2003) and Notions (Pudding House Publications, 2004). She practices law and lives in an old Cape Cod house bordered by wild roses in Auburn, Maine. "Like a Season" was first published in Cider Press Review; "Morning Glory" first appeared in Leavings (Bay River Press, 2005)(a collection of poems by Elizabeth Hobbs, Patricia Smith Ranzoni, Elizabeth Moser and Lillian Baker Kennedy). |
