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Daedalus' Daughter

Anne C. Coon

Contents

Part One

Daedalus' Daughter 8

Passenger 9

Catch and Release 10

Turkey in the Straw 11

Menarche 12

Honeoye Lake 13

Western Wind Reconsidered 14

What's Lost 15

This Tender Cage 21

Part Two

Queen Anne's Lace 32

Oyster Stew 34

Duly Noted 36

Under the Piecèd Quilt 37

Still, electric 38

Getting Pregnant 39

Gramercy Park Film Noir 40

Insomnia 41

Memory Made Flesh 42

Prayer 43

What then? 44

The First 34 Stages of Grief 45

Don't 46

Hang-up Call 47

Reclaiming Earth 48

Ephemera 49

From the book:

Daedalus' Daughter

My father and I both fly at night.

He takes off from a waterbed

moored at the edge of the lake,

while I, a land-locked second-story sleeper,

rise and skim the night air

thirty miles away.

He soars high, agile and air-borne,

-- bursting out of formation --

while I hover below ceilings

rise through doorways

swim just above the details of the day.

And tho' we've never met

on these nocturnal trips

we each recognized at once

the joy the other recalled:

the muscles in the arms drawing down

as the torso rises aloft, pulling away, coasting,

veering with the will of the body.

In these solitary flights, not buoyed

by mite-bitten feathers,

castoffs of a better bird,

but borne up entirely -- and only --

by the arched frame of imagination

we leave behind the ideograms of our lives

the sculpted rooms, gardens, and roads:

seen from above,

a labyrinth.

Anne C. Coon's poetry has appeared in several journals, including Northeast Corridor, Proteus, The Lyric, Earth's Daughters, and Women's Studies, and in the anthology Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama and the Essay (McGraw-Hill). She is a Professor in the Department of Language and Literature in the College of Liberal Arts at Rochester Institute of Technology and also teaches creative writing workshops for Writers & Books in Rochester, New York. She recently completed Via del Paradiso, a book of poems from Siena, Italy, and is currently working on a novel.

Daedalus' Daughter is a 52 page hand-sewn paperback with flat spine - $10.00.

TO ORDER Daedalus' Daughter ON-LINE

To order through mail send total price plus $1.25 Shipping and Handling ($1.75 in Canada; $3.25 other countries) for each address sent to.

Send orders to:

FootHills Publishing

PO Box 68

Kanona, NY 14856

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