Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE UNVEILING, by JANE MILLER


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THE UNVEILING, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind stirs the gauze from the stone
Last Line: The thing you find so precious is all over town
Subject(s): Family Life; Funerals; Mourning; Relatives; Burials; Bereavement


Wind stirs the gauze from the stone
and we see his Hebrew name
didn't you miss me
before the service is done
my mother far grander than ziggurats
my brother deeper than caves
and I am called
to take up the speckled pebbles
I bethought myself perhaps the skin of
which served to secure the veil
it is we who ought to think only of love
until he now is fully revealed
of night itself that doesn't depend on a guide
Hyman Walter
the same crowd that a year ago prayed
not for me to do wrong who never did right
at his burial now summers again
rash in pressing for consent
by his side crying openly those few
in a mystery which seems to threaten
some union and shows how deeply I brooded
weeping very clearly finally soberly
life which you thought you'd give
everything to come to find out
you resist everything for
children of the mourners at the site
in a mood which broke up our evening
run and sing for his pleasure
why kiss me lightly at your stop and not linger
the rabbi winces as a jet lowers to La Guardia
my case was this and anyone may judge
father whose trust suns the tiger lilies
whispers in my ear something about the blocked view
we stroll around and around and I fail to alert you
the family has lunch at the Seville
where you're from where you're going
we lounge over a meal because who knows when we will ever...
the thing you find so precious is all over town





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