<div class="line">Take me to my grandmother’s shrine</div>
<div class="line">Where I caught lightning bugs</div>
<div class="line">And they loved me</div>
<div class="line">Tell me how she named me well</div>
<div class="line">Tell me that she loved me</div>
<div class="line">Take me to that little shrine</div>
<div class="line">Chase me like I’m Frankenstein</div>
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<div class="line">Take me down the river walk</div>
<div class="line">Bid me hollow out the tide</div>
<div class="line">Tie me up with lace and ribbon</div>
<div class="line">Send me off, in a tiny box</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line"><em>she took me down the river walk</em></div>
<div class="line"><em>her fingers heavy, made of lead</em></div>
<div class="line"><em>she left her shoeprints on the water</em></div>
<div class="line"><em>while floods rose hell around my head</em></div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Tell me that she raised me well</div>
<div class="line">Tell me that she held me</div>
<div class="line">Take me to that little shrine</div>
<div class="line">Tell me how she loved me</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Take me to my grandmother’s shrine</div>
<div class="line">Bid me ride the hollow tide</div>
<div class="line">Let’s pray loud—at the top of our lungs</div>
<div class="line">Let’s raise hell among the dead</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Tell me how she named me well</div>
<div class="line">Tell me that she loved me</div>
<div class="line">Ask me if I’m sleep deprived</div>
<div class="line">Chase me like I’m Frankenstein</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Take me to a little shop</div>
<div class="line">On the side of the river walk</div>
<div class="line">Tie me up with lace and ribbon</div>
<div class="line">Send me off, in a tiny box</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line"><em>she took me to a pretty shop</em></div>
<div class="line"><em>she left her shoeprints on the floor</em></div>
<div class="line"><em>she could afford a little rock</em></div>
<div class="line"><em>she gave it to me to remember her by</em></div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Tell me that she sang so well</div>
<div class="line">Tell me what she told me</div>
<div class="line"><em>don’t you dare forget me now</em></div>
<div class="line">Tell me that she loved me</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Take me to my grandmother’s shrine</div>
<div class="line">Chase me, like I’m Frankenstein</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Floods raise hell around my head—</div>
<div class="line">Let’s raise hell among the dead</div>


A Town Praying for Rain

I Stole a Day

Take Me to My Grandmother’s Shrine …

<div class="line">Guests peer</div>
<div class="line">Through the windows</div>
<div class="line">Their breath bleeding stains on glass</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Freeze—and they’ll fade away</div>
<div class="line">Unceasing they run</div>
<div class="line">From death</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Glimpse—through the fog</div>
<div class="line">Glimpse—through the water</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">The rats and the hounds and the cliffs and the house by the shore</div>
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<div class="line">Rain pounds on the door</div>
<div class="line">Little house</div>
<div class="line">Little chimney</div>
<div class="line">Too small, and borderline dull</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Guests peer</div>
<div class="line">Through the windows</div>
<div class="line">Their clothes billow out in the wind</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Glimpse—through the fog</div>
<div class="line">Glimpse—through the water</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">The rats and the hounds and the cliffs and the house by the shore</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Rain pounds on the door</div>


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June 25, 2016Cliffs and the House by the ShoreShoshanah Celia Machlay

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