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    The Beatrice Ravenel Prize

    Debra A. Daniel

     

    Elegy for the City

    She sang of water
    often in her drowning dark,
    sang blues washed solid.
    She sang for rescue vessels,
    her messages unanswered.

    Long after liquid
    had risen to her shoulders,
    long after praying
    had become a foregone thought,
    her fingers kept blues playing.

    She hummed her breathing,
    breathed a silent bayou song
    carried in the tide,
    and with her drifting solace
    gave lyric birth to dying.

     
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