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Sue Rose is a literary translator with an MPhil in writing. Her poetry has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies (including Images of Women, SLN/Arrowhead) and her debut collection From the Dark Room is due out from Cinnamon Press in September 2011.
She stands by the pool
watching the girl break
the clouds’ reflection
over and over–
soon it will be time
to bid her change
the skin of water
for satin that will trail
down crumbling steps
behind her like a shadow
to the cool chapel,
air clothing her arms
in gooseflesh, vows
resonant in the domed silence.
When the invisible sun dips,
the seamstress will come again
to mar her pure creation.
Shearing off the train
with mottled hands,
attar-scented, she’ll free
the bride from her fluid serpent
so she can tramp the dirt
to the beat of the tambour
in the lantern light, white roses
frothing down the wall,
petals hemmed with brown.
Poem published: The French Literary Review, Issue 10, October 2008.
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