I have a who singing silently to your who singing
silently to my who, whoever and whomever
knows how to love, whose mouth knows how to kiss to make
words leap like ballerinas, glide like kayaks in white
water, high tide breathless fast paddling
fast swimming in swift currents, jet-skiing hang-
gliding syllables words sentences type-
faces strange and stranger, other languages, symbols
characters libraries and on-line dictionaries
waving tildes, diaerereses, circumflexes, and
the sexy รง-cedillas, pictures imported and ex-
ported up/downloaded ballads anthems carols
fugues lullabies etudes concertos symphonies
marches chants arias sung played my inner
orchestra my instruments of long ago and now
every bagpipe, saxophone 'cello lute maracas
viola flute harp and trumpet piccolo bassoon.
My erhu. My pipa .My simple rain-
stick. My Biblical ram's horn all now all then
all when my who which wants wants wants to be
here (and there) when the world is and was and will
be beyond time and space, beyond you, beyond
beyond, and beyond.
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About Marian Kaplun Shapiro
Marian Kaplun Shapiro is the author of a professional book, Second Childhood (Norton, 1988), a poetry book, Players In The Dream, Dreamers In The Play (Plain View Press, 2007) and two chapbooks: Your Third Wish (Finishing Line, 2007); and The End Of The World, Announced On Wednesday (Pudding House, 2007).
As a Quaker and a psychologist, her poetry often addresses the embedded topics of peace and violence, often by addressing one within the context of the other.
A resident of Lexington, she was named Senior Poet Laureate of Massachusetts in 2006 and again in 2008. Her work received the Elizabeth Bolton award.
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