Her Riding

Lives of wives
first awakenings

Closet chaplets
prayerful fugitives

Listing dead ones
biography’s fantasies

Love’s love, death’s death
lying words or joking words

First leafings, then her seconds
twenty poems less, though gently

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Poet: Susan Powers Bourne
Source: Laura Riding Jackson
Image: Floris van Breugel 
Process: Pick and mix cento