WORLD VOICES

THIS IS THE ONE WHO WILL LEAVE
  BY KERRY HARDIE


Contents

Home
Introduction
Dedication
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Thrush
Last Swim of the Day
Negation
The Satin Gown
October
Protecting the Buds
She Will Try Again to
     Recover Again

The Rough and the Smooth
A man died in the valley
     today,

What Happened to the
     Soviet Union

After the Prize
Porcelain Man
Being Here
Fear
On Reading Michael
     Longley's Snow Water

Reflection
Waning
Emigration Photo
California
Letter from the Old World
     to a Brother in the New

Sky
Domestic War
Grace
Freda Kahlo Goes Native
All Saints

World Voices Home

The Literary Explorer
Writers on the Job
Books Forgotten
Thomas E. Kennedy
Walter Cummins
Web Del Sol



She Will Try Again to Recover Again

A fence of green palings.
An overgrown garden.
Tall hollyhocks. And no one.
The dense trees
moving in closer.

A sick woman lies on a bed.
Always there.
Someone speaks.
'It is time again
for it all to begin again.'

'And how can I leave here?
I have been here so long.
So long.  And how can I stay?
with It licking the glass
of the cracked pane.'

'Who is this It?
that you fear so?'

'A matted beast
whose name is Hope.'