To Know We Are Living
Miriam Levine
1976

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I Dreamt That Certain Women

Miriam Levine

I dreamt that certain women

were sending me letters:

Dear Child,

Where have you been so long?

Why not join us?

The one with jet beads.

And the one with the heart of flowers.

And the voice humming like a wasp in my dreams.

Doves cooing in the pink air of morning.

The clear notes of reason,

and the bitter drones of survivors

ready for anything—

stumbling, uncombed,

I find paper in the dark

and a pen

                    to answer . . .

“I Dreamt That Certain Women” from To Know We Are Living.