BRAILLE
Learning somebody, it's all braille/what the tongue and teeth taste/what the fingers find/of silk and stubble, of bark/and velvet and wet grass/colors that splash through/bronze, violet, dragonfly jade/
the voice that later/comes unbidden as a Mozart/horn concerto to the ears/caroling its name in the blood/again and again
-Marge Piercy
[July 1976]
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