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TASK
by Penelope Shuttle

Here's your rain,
that specialises in you

Here's your fret of looking, your silvery silvern,
your year of song, worldly with light

Here's your heart, and all that it can do
What can it do?

Here's your ange boon temps,
your ange mauvais

Here's your thought,
clouds over mountains,
honouring someone

Here's your summer, slowly passing

Here's your mouth, and all that it can do
What can it do?

Here's your fear,
its restive stubborn clockwork

Here's your dream, ex libris

Here's your hand, and all that it can do
What can it do?

Here's your lovely wilding,
tall and shrewd and now in bloom

Here's your Mercredi,
your Vendrdi,

your house, its ups and downs,
your sky, de dia, de noche,
your world and all that it can do

What can it do?

From Redgrove's Wife, published by Bloodaxe Books, 2006.