on being asked if the anklet i'm wearing is an old charm bracelet of mine
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On Being Asked If the Anklet I'm Wearing Is an Old Charm Bracelet of MineAuthor(s): Margaret GibsonSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Winter, 2006/2007), p. 136Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20152239 .
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MARGARET GIBSON
On Being Asked if the Anklet I'm Wearing Is an Old Charm Bracelet of Mine
I reply by stamping my foot
until the gemstones and pearls are a fierce rush of fire, a dance called
taking the shortcut home...
I reply by pointing to
the cold moon's rim in the whirl and tumble-by river on whose ripples dove cry scatters...
I reply with the gesture the oldest and most purely naked of women would make
to inhabit
the high wild notes of mountains by the sea...
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