{"id":271,"date":"2009-09-01T12:37:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T17:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?p=271"},"modified":"2009-09-01T12:37:06","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T17:37:06","slug":"joan-mcnerney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/2009\/09\/joan-mcnerney\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan McNerney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alchemy Dreams
\nJoan McNerney, September 2009<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u3000
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i. Silver<\/strong><\/p>\n

How shall I begin my dream?
\nSo strange. I could have fallen
\nfrom a cloud. Long, grey cloud.
\nI feel so strange…
\ncloud, shroud of sadness
\nwound through heaven.
\nFalling from my cloud
\ncareening on ice
\nslipping sliding
\nover crystals.
\nDropping through
\ndeep night.
\nI fell alone
\njackknifed on
\nsilver ice.<\/p>\n

ii. Mercury<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vessels of thought
\nas quick as mercury
\nspilling over.
\nWe lie chained to sleep
\nprisoners of darkness.
\nStruggling against
\nedge of night listening
\nfor animals pounding
\ncloser closer.
\nTheir scent surrounding us.
\nGalloping high
\nracing dark horses
\nnightmares.<\/p>\n

iii. Lead<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why why why
\ndid they steal my sky?
\nForlorn for so long.
\nNow all my stars are gone,
\nFalling through heaven
\nfull of ashes.
\nMy life is gone.
\nI am another graffiti mark
\nanother dark stain.
\nMy sky was torn down.
\nWhy why why was I so silent
\nwhen my dreams were tossed away?
\nLike smoldering lead my eyes
\nburst open. Hot hot my heart
\nfell in hate fell to hell
\nburning through this leaden night.<\/p>\n

iv. Copper<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who are we
\nwithout compass
\nwithout map
\ndelivered before darkness?
\nWe splay our hands out
\ntracing coils of copper
\nwhile lines of time merge
\ninto mazes of memory.
\nRemembering shadows
\nwe search our thoughts.
\nOver mountains of mist
\nlooking for morning
\ndrinking milk from the moon.<\/p>\n

v. Gold<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am searching for a
\nperfect color sound shape
\nto hold close to me.
\nI want something luminous
\nsomething cool.
\nThis splash of sky
\nperfectly formed
\ndrop of rain
\ndrop of gold.
\nI will wear
\nin the hollow
\naround my neck…
\nThis eye of an angel.<\/p>\n

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Joan McNerney\u2019s poetry has been included in numerous literary magazines such as Boston Review of the Arts<\/em>, Kalliope<\/em>, Mudfish<\/em>, Spectrum<\/em> and Word Thursdays<\/em>. Four of her books have been published by fine literary presses. She has performed at the National Arts Club, State University of New York, Oneonta, McNay Art Institute and other distinguished venues. A recent reading was sponsored by the American Academy of Poetry. Her latest title is Having Lunch with the Sky<\/em>, A.P.D. Press, Albany, New York. You are invited to her link at www.joanspoems.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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