Let the Rain Listen for Me
By Noel Canin
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How often have I sat on my doorstep, coffee cup in hand, thinking of other women doing the very same thing across the world. We live in the same universe, though most of us will never meet except through words. Words have the power to sculpt the very deepest response to this strange, exquisite and terrible journey of life, witness what is here, give shape to what is to come, what may never come.
I hope this book will find and touch your life as your unknown presence touches mine.
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Let the Rain Listen for Me - Noel Canin
Fantasy Apples
For Laure-Anne
If by just a thought
one could summon up that one man
whose call is instant knowledge,
and he would be there,
manifestly unsurprised,
framed by certain pictures and potted plants,
and no time (ever come never go)
would bind forms leaping
and bounding
one surge through,
for the time of singing has come
and all is laugh
and wildly tender.
If by just a thought
apple trees and fantasies
were innocent of rape -
But the doors have given way,
The old surge is violated,
never quite recaptured
when summoned up by just a thought,
never quite recognized -
though the pictures and the potted plants
are the same -
and some woman’s time of singing
has always come.
Caw
For Edna
Caw Caw
he said.
Sound.
It was just before Ginsberg came,
to sit there calling about his mother’s eyes.
Sound,
he said.
I didn’t want to remember
another hospital bed,
recall brown eyes -
but listen for sound,
as he said,
Caw Caw.
Salt writhe of seaweed -
Ulysses upon the beach -
Recall a film,
metallic motion of cameras,
grains of sand
giving way at the water’s edge
and Eliot’s sea-girls.
Faber and Faber thin,
the crackle of paper in memory.
Always the waves
crushing liquid
against the rocks,
and shells later on at home.
The brown table,
and ships sailing past the veranda
to England.
Museum Conjury
The hour hangs motionless at the Tel Aviv Museum.
House of fragments
stilled into representation.
Statue. Painting. Tapestry.
Left with those first fingers,
that old labor,
another air transported.
Outside, two squares.
A large upper square
and an inner rectangle below.
She crosses to look over the wall.
Two earthen seats are sunken in concrete.
Vacant, they face each other beneath a seal of glass:
The grave of eternal dialog at the Tel Aviv Museum.
Beneath the glass, moisture gathers,
falls globe by globe to the