January through March 2003 ~ Volume 11
Publisher D. Menendez, EIC Jim Christ
Editors Janet Kenny & Ani Gjika - Joe Carcel Ghost Editor
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| The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter |
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Ken Ashworth |
| Evenings, after cook fires dim and the chatter of children subsides into the silence of a conch shell, she picks her way through salt hay to a cliff's edge, draws a bow made from her hair, plays violin to the sea. At first her fingers fumble then find their rhythm as when spindling a loom. Behind her the laundry line signals semaphore to nothing; sails furl and slacken on the horizon. Chin crushed to rosewood, face gentled by the beam, salt spume prickles bare ankles and she is loosed from her tether to the man in the wing-back tamping the throat of his meerschaum with a yellowed thumb; eyes the color of theft Poem Copyright © Ken Ashworth 2002. All rights reserved. |