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Post by MoonyLuna on Jan 31, 2009 12:07:11 GMT -5
Well, a Great Highland Bagpipe can reach 100 decibels— pipers have to wear earplugs,
And the wars they've accompanied, or maybe provoked,
And that tired debate over what's under a kilt— nothing, or the shorts known as trews,
(You knew that, about the earplugs?)
And the animal skin, the pipes attached where a head once protruded, and the thin, obedient limbs.
On the other hand— the years they've persisted (thousands), comforting shepherds on the Isle of Mull,
And the guy at the beach wearing running shoes, practicing scales in a pre-dawn mist with a barking dog at his side,
And Giles Crane at our fortieth high school reunion— in full Scots regalia piping Danny Boy—
and that finally, after all these years, we noticed him.
copyright Juditha Dowd
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Post by MoonyLuna on Jan 31, 2009 12:08:16 GMT -5
Featured Poet Juditha Dowd
Juditha Dowd's poetry has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including The Florida Review, California Quarterly, Journal of NJ Poets, The Barefoot Muse, Relief, and Passager. She received an honorable mention for the Allen Ginsberg Award in 2008. Her chapbook, The Weathermancer, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2006; a second, What Remains, will come out later this year. Dowd is a member of Cool Women, a performance ensemble of nine women poets. Their fifth anthology will be published in 2009.
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