Able Muse - ms. brown https://www.ablemuse.com/taxonomy/term/149/149? en Ms. Brown https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/poetry/mebane-robertson/ms-brown? <h2><p>Ms. Brown</p></h2> <p>Ms. Brown was a sunlight girl.<br> She traced my heel in a whirl.<br> She boxed my onions, shattered my keel,<br> Made me feel what I couldn’t feel.</p> <p>Mercury-head dimes, her bright symmetry<br> Speckled my trout into live alchemy—<br> Feathered my bird and honeyed my bear<br> Castled my rook from here to there.</p> <p>So the show would go on through weddings,<br> Forebodings, bleedings, and beheadings,<br> She worked her weeding as the catacomb dust<br> Sifted down over the garden of lust.</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/poetry/mebane-robertson/ms-brown?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/poetry/mebane-robertson/ms-brown?#comments Poetry mebane robertson ms. brown poems v6 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:13:06 +0000 Administrator 113 at https://www.ablemuse.com