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Claudia Emerson
Reunion Weekend
Reunion Weekend
Reunion Weekend
Thirty years later, drunk on red wine, they will returnto wander the halls, searching for a certain
room, its window still memorized – will delight
in finding through familiar panes the moon rising
just the way it had when they'd lain sleepless
beneath it. But they cannot return to the twin bed,
long assigned, reassigned to some other
possibility sick for home, another
disappointment – the room itself practicing
what they will have come to prove cannot be finished.
© 2007, Claudia Emerson
‘Environmental Awareness: The Right Whale’, ‘What They Are Missing’, ‘Physical Education’ and ‘Reunion Weekend’ are from a sequence entitled ‘All Girls School’. The epigraphs are from the chapter ‘The Seclusion of Girls at Puberty’ in The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by Sir George Frazer.
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Reunion Weekend
Thirty years later, drunk on red wine, they will returnto wander the halls, searching for a certain
room, its window still memorized – will delight
in finding through familiar panes the moon rising
just the way it had when they'd lain sleepless
beneath it. But they cannot return to the twin bed,
long assigned, reassigned to some other
possibility sick for home, another
disappointment – the room itself practicing
what they will have come to prove cannot be finished.
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