New and On View: Mudlark Poster No. 94 (2011)

An Electronic Journal of Poetry & Poetics

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MUDLARK

Five Poems by Deborah Flanagan

Going to Hell | A Sixpence Song | How the Man is Knit

Unauthorized Autobiography | Floating Island Custard

A Sixpence Song

One is for bad news: I dream that men are birds and they have something to tell me

Two is for mirth: wake to find a huge crow, pacing to and fro

Three is a wedding: drink wine in which a blackbird drowned

Four for a birth: I bake a pie full of twenty-four naughty boys

Five is for riches: serve it to the queen in the parlor with bread and honey

Six is a thief: a bird with one wing steals my nose

Seven a journey: I visit the doctor; he sews it back on

Eight is for grief: the birds refuse to fly out of the pie

Nine is a secret: why a raven is like a writing desk

Ten is for sorrow: my heart in a baby birdcage

Eleven is love: nevermore

Twelve is joy on the morrow: I open my mouth; a bird flies out

Deborah Flanagan's work has appeared in journals including The Gettysburg Review, FIELD, The Laurel Review, Hotel Amerika, and Poet Lore among others.

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William Slaughter, mudlark@unf.edu

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