Sara Eliza Johnson

Bone Map


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      © 2014, Text by Sara Eliza Johnson

      Cover art by George Stubbs (public domain)

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      Published 2014 by Milkweed Editions

      Cover design by Mary Austin Speaker

      Author photo by Fotofly Studio

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Johnson, Sara Eliza.

      [Poems. Selections]

      Bone Map : poems / Sara Eliza Johnson. -- First edition.

      pages cm. -- (National Poetry Series)

      ISBN 978-1-57131-919-7 (ebook)

      I. Title.

      PS3610.O3764A6 2014

      811'.6--dc23

      2014004616

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      CONTENTS

       Lesson

       Me Tangere

       Rapture

       View From the Fence, On Which I Sit and Dangle My Legs

       Confession

       Frühlingstraum

       The Last Przewalski’s Horse

       The Dream of Water

       Parable of the Flood

       When There Is Burning Instead

       Purgatory

       Epilogue

       Pathfinder

       Sea Psalm

       Question

       Elegy Surrounded by Water

       Archipelago: Island of Sheep

       Archipelago: The Paradise of Birds

       Archipelago: Tabula Rasa

       Archipelago: The Soporific Well

       Instructions for Wintering on the Ice Field

       Letter from the Ice Field, October

       Letter from the Ice Field, December

       Letter from the Ice Field, January

       Letter from the Ice Field, March

       Archipelago: Ultima Thule

       The City Where Men Are Mended

       Let Us Consider Where We Might Have a Home

       How the World Was Made

       Equinox

      A god steps down from the mountain. He walks through the dark forest. There are wild beasts everywhere in the silent darkness. It must be real. I’m not dreaming. I’m telling the truth.

      INGMAR BERGMAN

       Through a Glass Darkly

      In the forest, the owl releases a boneless cry.

      I know the names of things here

      and I can hold them.

      I hold your hand:

      a matryoshka opening deeper

      until I can hear your bones

      singing into mine,

      and feel the moon

      as it rolls through you

      like a great city before a war

      where it has been night for so long

      that everyone sees

      with their hands,

      and then somewhere in the city

      a newborn animal

      shakes the dust off itself

      and stands, makes

      a thimbleful of sound,

      and a boy standing in the square

      turns toward it,

      and his father, not knowing

      what his hands will be made to do

      to other men,

      places a hand on his head.