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Jehane Markham

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The Rags of my Dreams

The rags of my dreams
Decorate the bare walls
With blisters of colour;
I will have cried that day,
I will have swept the floor then.
Sometimes things fall into place
With an unimagined sweetness,
My goodbye keys on the chair,
The copper waterfall of the beech tree falling outside
And the feelings inside
Growing like fibres in the woven cloth.
The postman slithers the letters through the letterbox,
They fall like a hand of cards upon the mat.
The cat licks herself patiently,
All wait for the dreams to come,
To be sewn with brilliant thread,
To lie around me
Like a cloak of love,
To keep me from the dead.

 


Jehane Markham’s poems have appeared in anthologies and magazines including Wild Cards Virago 1999 and The Observer 1999. Twenty Poems is the second pocket book collection of her work published by Rough Winds Productions in 1999. Jehane has given poetry readings with her mother, the poet, Olive Dehn. An audiotape of her and her mother’s poetry entitled My Mother Myself has just been released.

 

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