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How to pray the stone beads

by Lydia Harris

I leave you the weight of them
the veins the passages between
the grains where water seeps in

ten awl-bored, grainy and dun
threaded on gut, sway-heavy
swing them, they could do harm

between forefinger and thumb
they are warm in my palm
I swear they are garland and crown


Stone poems by Lydia Harris
A Fishy TailStory by Selina Hardisty
How to pray the stone beadsPoem by Lydia Harris
if you lose the stone what will happenPoem by Lydia Harris
Sentinel StonePoem by Lydia Harris
Standing StonePoem by Lydia Harris
Stone's first day at schoolPoem by Lydia Harris
The Quoybirse stone blunders into the housePoem by Lydia Harris

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