2010-11-28 19:11:41Yvette

A Kind of Rapture


http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=0010484294

 

Name

By Carol Ann Duffy

When did your name

change from a proper noun

to a charm?

 

Its three vowels

like jewels

on the thread of my breath.

 

Its cosonants

brushing my outh

like a kiss.

 

I love your name.

I say it again and again

in this summer rain.

 

I see it,

discreet in the alphabet,

like a wish.

 

I pray it

into the night

till its letters are light.

 

I hear your name

rhyming, rhyming,

rhyming with everything.