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Marion Davidson

Two Poems

Marion Davidson is the author of Closeness of Ice, a chapbook of poems released by the critically acclaimed Finishing Line Press in November of 2004. Recent poems of hers have also appeared in several publications including Sunday Oregonian, Hubbub, RATTLE, Troubadour, Cascade Reader and Signpost.

The author, a retired attorney and long time activist, lived for over two decades in the Southwest, where she worked on the Navajo Indian Reservation and later for the New Mexico Court of Appeals.

The author currently lives on the Deschutes River in Bend, Oregon. Closeness of Ice is available at www.finishinglinepress.com.

Pleiades

I feel the Pleiades under my right eye,
just beneath the lashes, much like a sty
quivering in the emptiness of space.

With unaided sight, six stars are seen:
the Hard Flint Boys of the Navajo.
The seventh lags behind or hides herself
depending on who is telling the story.

Girls or boys, they have invaded my face,
perched beneath the supraorbital rim
full of the sort of questions
that make a new millennium
seem like ordinary business.
And they cling close to the laugh lines
singing and splashing
as the tears come—
brash young stars.


“Pleiades” previously appeared in RATTLE

Equinox with Whitman

When I consider light and dark at perfect
odds and stand alone beside the lake,
the summer’s antics done, my face reflects
Boreas roaring down and so I take
a dive into the deepest year to swim
with memory’s creatures bright or cold, to feed
again. I sense it all: the fields, the thinning
of the grain, the river noise, its reeds
begin to sing; a soldier, a child asleep,
the tallest mountain, the deepest mine, the sound
across the shore of a shepherd calling sheep.
On earth’s axis tipsy once again around
the sun we go, paying the piper, cheers
for the ride, I salute us sailors divinely here.


“Equinox with Whitman” previously appeared in the Sunday Oregonian