Red Sea 
Broadside Number 3




These Anemones, Their Song
Is Made Up as They Float Along







from The Last Century: Selected Poems
copyright  1992 by Laurance Wieder
Picador Australia
140 pages; $7.95 US




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Laurance Wieder
These Anemones, Their Song
Is Made Up as They Float Along


In 1954, in June
I saw a total eclipse of the sun by the moon.
I saw the flowers fold up, the birds
Stopped singing to the morning, the grass
Grew wet, and it was dark.
I was awake, but when I was awake
A while longer I woke up and said
"I have slept until now," and now
I have stopped sleeping altogether.


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